Aquaculture and fisheries biotechnology : genetic approaches /

• Main Author: Dunham, Rex A., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Fishes > Breeding.; Shellfish > Breeding.; Fishes > Molecular genetics.; Shellfish > Molecular genetics.; Laws and Regulations.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Fisheries.; Aquaculture (Animals); Pollution and Degradation.; Aquatic Produce.; Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Mathematics and Statistics.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Fishes.; Salmon.; Aquaculture.; Aquatic organisms.; Biotechnology.; Correlated responses.; Crossbreeding.; DNA cloning.; DNA hybridization.; Domestication.; Environmental impact.; Environmental protection.; Food safety.; Gene expression.; Gene mapping.; Gene transfer.; Genetic drift.; Genomics.; Genotype environment interaction.; Genotypes.; Hatcheries.; Inbreeding.; Insulin-like growth factor.; Polyploidy.; Population genetics.; Qualitative analysis.; Quantitative analysis.; Quantitative genetics.; Quantitative trait loci.; Quantitative traits.; Regulations.; Risk.; Selection programme.; Somatotropin.; Strains.; Transgenic animals.; Wildlife conservation.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 495 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-479) and index.
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This book covers topics essential to the study of fish genetics, including qualitative and quantitative traits, crossbreeding, inbreeding, genetic drift, hybridization, selection programs, polyploidy, genomics and cloning. This fully updated second edition also addresses environmental risk, food safety and government regulation of transgenic aquatic organisms, commercial applications of fish biotechnology and future issues in fish genetics.