Heritability for body colour and its genetic association with morphometric traits in Banana shrimp (Fenneropenaeus merguiensis).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Banana shrimp Fenneropenaeus merguiensis has emerged as an important aquacultured shrimp species in South East Asia and Australia. However, the quantitative genetic basis of economically important traits in this species are currently not available, while for body colour, cooked or uncooked, there are no genetic parameter estimates for any shrimp or indeed any decapod crustacean. In this study, we report for banana shrimp genetic parameters for morphometric traits and, the first time for any shrimp, parameter estimates for body colour. Ten highly polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed from genomic sequences and used to construct a pedigree for 2000 offspring from approximately 60 female and 60 male parents that were sampled from a single routine commercial prod

SUBMITTER: Nguyen NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4261751 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature