This comprehensive but easy to use guide covers major areas such as the uses of genetic knowledge to captive breeding programs and the use of gene transfer in fish to improve quality, and resistance to disease.

Biotechnology and Genetics in Fisheries and Aquaculture is a text of great clarity, which carefully explains the science and application of molecular and genetic techniques to fisheries and aquaculture situations and what these new technologies have to offer.

Features:

• a full explanation of genetic variation and its measurement
• genetic structure in natural populations
• genetics and artificial selection in the hatchery
• ploidy manipulation
• use of genetic engineering in aquaculture

Biotechnology and Genetics in Fisheries and Aquaculture is a useful guide for fish biologists, fisheries and aquaculture workers, animal geneticists and biotechnologists.

Contents

1. What is Genetic Variation?
2. How can Genetic Variation be Measured?
3. Genetic Structure in Natural Populations
4. Genetic Considerations in the Hatchery
5. Artificial Selection in the Hatchery
6. Triploids and Beyond: Why Manipulate Ploidy?
7. Genetic Engineering in Aquaculture

Index

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