Selection and Breeding Programs in Aquaculture (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402033421
• Artikelnr.: 37359648

Autorenporträt

Trygve Gjedrem, AKVAFORSK, Institute of Aquaculture Research AS, Norway

Inhaltsangabe

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Preface * Contributors * 1. Status and scope of aquaculture - T. Gjedrem * 2. Basic genetics - T.Gjedrem and O.Andersen * 3. Population genetics - O. Andersen and B. Hayes * 4. Polygenic inheritance - H.B. Bentsen * 5. Basic statistical parameters - T. Gjedrem and I. Olesen * 6. Kinship, relationship and inbreeding - A. K. Sonesson, J.A. Woolliams and Th.H.E. Meuwissen * 7. Selection - T. Gjedrem and J. Thodesen * 8. Reproductive traits in aquatic animals - T. Refstie and T. Gjedrem * 9. Methods for estimating phenotypic and genetic parameters - K. Kolstad * 10. Breeding strategies - K.T. Fjalestad * 11. Selection methods - K.T. Fjalestad * 12. Design of breeding programs - B. Gjerde * 13. Prediction of breeding values - B. Gjerde * 14. Genotype - environment interaction - T. Gjedrem * 15. Measuring genetic change - M. Rye and T. Gjedrem * 16. Breeding plans - T. Gjedrem * 17. Organising breeding programs - T. Gjedrem and T. Refstie * 18. Chromosome engineering - T. Refstie and T. Gjedrem * 19. Modern biotechnolgoy and aquaculture - B. Hayes and O. Andersen * 20. Genetic interactions between farmed and wild fish, with examples from the Atlantic salmon case in Norway - H.B. Bentsen and J. Thodesen * Appendix * References * Index

Rezensionen

"This book is the most comprehensive text covering the important aspects of genetics and selection programmes in aquaculture to date."

"All in all, this volume is the most complete and informative text on fish genetics for aquaculture."

(Aquaculture Research, 37, 2006)