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.
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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 saf...

Table of Contents:

• History of biotechnology, genetics and selective breeding in aquaculture and fisheries
• Phenotypic variation and environmental effects
• Basic genetics, qualitative traits and selection for qualitative traits
• Strain evaluation, domestication and strain selection
• Population size, inbreeding, random genetic drift and maintenance of genetic quality
• Gynogenesis, androgenesis, cloned populations and nuclear transplantation
• Intraspecific crossbreeding
• Interspecific hybridization
• Selection and correlated responses to selection
• Polyploidy and xenogenesis
• Sex reversal and breeding
• Biochemical and molecular markers
• Population genetics and interactions of hatchery and wild fish
• Genomics, gene mapping, quantitative trait locus mapping and marker-assisted selection
• Gene expression
• Gene-transfer technology
• Combining genetic enhancement programmes
• Genotype-environment interactions
• Commercial application of fish biotechnology
• Environmental risk of aquatic organisms from genetic biotechnology
• Food safety of transgenic aquatic organisms
• A case example : safety of consumption of transgenic salmon potentially containing elevated levels of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor
• Government regulation of transgenic fish and biotechnology products
• Strategies for genetic conservation, gene banking and maintaining genetic quality
• Ethics
• Constraints and limitations of genetic biotechnology.