Comparison of single- and multi-trait approaches to identify best wild candidates for aquaculture shows that the simple way fails.

ABSTRACT: In agriculture, diversifying production implies picking up, in the wild biodiversity, species or populations that can be domesticated and fruitfully produced. Two alternative approaches are available to highlight wild candidate(s) with high suitability for aquaculture: the single-trait (i.e. considering a single phenotypic trait and, thus, a single biological function) and multi-trait (i.e. considering multiple phenotypic traits involved in several biological functions) approaches. Although the former is the traditional and the simplest method, the latter could be theoretically more efficient. However, an explicit comparison of advantages and pitfalls between these approaches is lacking to date in aquaculture. Here, we compared the two approaches to identify best candidate(s) between four

SUBMITTER: Toomey L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7360571 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature