Health & Welfare
Improving shrimp stocks with microsatellites
Libraries have been produced from Pacific white shrimp containing many thousands of microsatellites, a source of potential markers for use in diverse applications.
Health & Welfare
Microsatellites: Applications in aquaculture
Microsatellites are useful for molecular tagging of individuals and molecular dissection of complex traits such as growth, temperature tolerance and disease resistance.
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Molecular biology tools applied to selection programs
New molecular biology technologies are complex and expensive but also strongly recommended for any genetic selection program in aquaculture.
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Microsatellites: Genetic markers of choice
Use of microsatellites is one of many marker approaches, but has proven to be the tool of choice across all commercial agriculture sectors.