Aquaculture and fisheries biotechnology : genetic approaches /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dunham, Rex A. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
Edition:	2nd edition.
Subjects:	Fishes > Breeding. Fishes > Molecular genetics. Shellfish > Breeding. Shellfish > Molecular genetics. Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000) Aquaculture (Animals) Aquatic Produce. Fisheries. Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology. Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002) Laws and Regulations. Mathematics and Statistics. Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002) Pollution and Degradation. Aquaculture. Aquatic organisms. Biotechnology. Correlated responses. Crossbreeding. DNA cloning. DNA hybridization. Domestication. Environmental impact. Environmental protection. Fishes. Food safety. Gene expression. Gene mapping. Gene transfer. Genetic drift. Genomics. Genotype environment interaction. Genotypes. Hatcheries. Inbreeding. Insulin-like growth factor. Polyploidy. Population genetics. Qualitative analysis. Quantitative analysis. Quantitative genetics. Quantitative trait loci. Quantitative traits. Regulations. Risk. Salmon. Selection programme. Somatotropin. Strains. Transgenic animals. Wildlife conservation. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

History of biotechnology, genetics and selective breeding in aquaculture and fisheries
Phenotypic variation and environmental effects
Basic genetics, qualitative traits and selection for qualitative traits
Strain evaluation, domestication and strain selection
Population size, inbreeding, random genetic drift and maintenance of genetic quality
Gynogenesis, androgenesis, cloned populations and nuclear transplantation
Intraspecific crossbreeding
Interspecific hybridization
Selection and correlated responses to selection
Polyploidy and xenogenesis
Sex reversal and breeding
Biochemical and molecular markers
Population genetics and interactions of hatchery and wild fish
Genomics, gene mapping, quantitative trait locus mapping and marker-assisted selection
Gene expression
Gene-transfer technology
Combining genetic enhancement programmes
Genotype-environment interactions
Commercial application of fish biotechnology
Environmental risk of aquatic organisms from genetic biotechnology
Food safety of transgenic aquatic organisms
A case example : safety of consumption of transgenic salmon potentially containing elevated levels of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor
Government regulation of transgenic fish and biotechnology products
Strategies for genetic conservation, gene banking and maintaining genetic quality
Ethics
Constraints and limitations of genetic biotechnology.