Selection and Breeding Programs in Aquaculture

Preliminaries......Page 1
PREFACE......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
1 Status and scope of aquaculture......Page 15
2 Basic genetics......Page 23
3 Population genetics......Page 37
4 Polygenic inheritance......Page 49
5 Basic statistical parameters......Page 59
6 Kinship relationship and inbreeding......Page 87
7 Selection......Page 103
8 Reproductive traits in aquatic animals......Page 127
9 Methods for estimating phenotypic and genetic parameters......Page 135
10 Breeding strategies......Page 159
11 Selection methods......Page 173
12 Design of breeding programs......Page 187
13 Prediction of breeding values......Page 211
14 Genotype  environment interaction......Page 247
15 Measuring genetic change......Page 257
16 Breeding plans......Page 265
17 Organising breeding program......Page 293
18 Chromosome engineering......Page 301
19 Modern biotechnology and aquaculture......Page 315
20 Genetic interactions between farmed and wild fish with examples from the Atlantic salmon case in Norway......Page 333
Appendix A......Page 349
References......Page 351
Index......Page 375