Assessing Accuracy of Genomic Predictions for Resistance to Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus With Progeny Testing of Selection Candidates in a Commercial Rainbow Trout Breeding Population.

ABSTRACT: Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) is an economically important disease of salmonid fish caused by the IHN virus (IHNV). Under industrial aquaculture settings, IHNV can cause substantial mortality and losses. Actually, there is no confirmed and cost-effective method for IHNV control. Clear Springs Foods, Inc. has been performing family-based selective breeding to increase genetic resistance to IHNV in their rainbow trout breeding program. In an earlier study, we used siblings cross-validation to estimate the accuracy of genomic prediction (GP) for IHNV resistance in this breeding population. In the present report, we used empirical progeny testing data to evaluate whether genomic selection (GS) can improve the accuracy of breeding value predictions over traditional pedigree-based best

SUBMITTER: Vallejo RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674624 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature