Polygenic and sex specific architecture for two maturation traits in farmed Atlantic salmon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A key developmental transformation in the life of all vertebrates is the transition to sexual maturity, whereby individuals are capable of reproducing for the first time. In the farming of Atlantic salmon, early maturation prior to harvest size has serious negative production impacts.

Results

We report genome wide association studies (GWAS) using fish measured for sexual maturation in freshwater or the marine environment. Genotypic data from a custom 50 K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array was used to identify 13 significantly associated SNP for freshwater maturation with the most strongly associated on chromosomes 10 and 11. A higher number of associations (48) were detected for marine maturation, and the two peak loci were found to be the same for both t

SUBMITTER: Mohamed AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377724 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature