- HOW ALL THIS WORKS
- Relating Genetics
to What We Do - Lesson2
- Applications
- Genetic
Improvement-Genetics in Aquaculture
- PCR - Methods for
Mulitplying DNA
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- MARKER ASSISTED SELECTION- (MAS)
-
Microsatellites-Tools
of Choice
- What Can Markers
Be Used For?
- What do Markers
Look Like?
- Anatomy of a
Microsatellite
- Results
of Microsatellite Enrichment
- Benefits
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- VISUAL AIDS
- Electropherograms-Finding
a Microsatellite
- Dendrograms-Family
Orientation
- The Genetic Rope
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- OTHER
- The
Sustainability of Shrimp Culture vs. Growing Demand
- WAS 1999 / SYDNEY,
AUSTRALIA
- Sydney Reception Pix
- WAS'99 (Sydney) Aquafauna Bio-Marine/ASICo booth pix
COMING SOON (This information and services listed below are already available for inquiry. It is the related
information that is "coming soon" to this website).
- How Unique is the Breeding Guidance to My Stocks?
- How Proprietary is the Information Generated?
- Molecular tracking vs. physical tagging
- Aquatic Domestication Programs
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| ASICo now offers a molecular genetic
approach based upon DNA microsatellites for aquatic domestication programs, stock
identification, pedigree/lineage tracking and marker assisted selection. |
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| The use of such tools is highly complementary
to traditional breeding programs that are based upon phenotypic strategies. Marker
technology has been in wide use for the past twenty years in other sectors of agriculture
such as the plant, poultry, swine and cattle industries. More recently, such technology
has been applied to the salmon and oyster sectors of aquaculture with a very high level of
success. In salmon, for example, genetic selection coupled with phenotypic programs (over
the last twelve years) has produced strains which display over 30% faster growth with
corresponding reductions in production costs (feed, labor, fuel, etc.) exceeding 25%. Such
gains in aquaculture and agriculture are well documented and characterize business
maturity and growth within these sectors. |
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