Aquaculture and fisheries biotechnology : genetic approaches /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunham, Rex A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI Pub., 2004.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • History of genetic biotechnology in aquaculture and fisheries
  • Phenotypic variation and environmental effects
  • Polyploidy
  • Gynogenesis, androgenesis, cloned populations and nuclear transplantation
  • Sex reversal and breeding
  • Biochemical and molecular markers
  • Population genetics and interactions of hatchery and wild fish
  • Gene mapping, quantitative trait locus mapping and marker-assisted selection
  • Gene expression, isolation and cloning
  • Gene-transfer technology
  • Combining genetic enhancement programmes
  • Genotype-environment interactions
  • 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
  • Commercial application of fish biotechnology
  • Strategies for genetic conservation, gene banking and maintaining genetic quality
  • Constraints and limitations of genetic biotechnology