Evaluating new species for aquaculture: A genomic dissection of growth in the New Zealand silver trevally (Pseudocaranx georgianus).

ABSTRACT: Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food production sector worldwide, yet industry has been slow to implement genomic techniques as routine tools. Applying genomics to new breeding programmes can provide important information about pedigree structure and genetic diversity; key parameters for a successful long-term breeding programme. It can also provide insights on potential gains for commercially important, yet complex, quantitative traits such as growth rate. Here we investigated a population of 1100 captive-bred F₁ silver trevally (Pseudocaranx georgianus), a promising new species for New Zealand aquaculture. We used whole-genome information, coupled with image-based phenotypic data collected over two years, to build the pedigree of the population, assess its genetic di

SUBMITTER: Valenza-Troubat N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9046765 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature