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Genetic improvement of carp reduces poverty, hunger in Asia
Type: Journal Article
Breeding programs for carp species carried out in a number of Asian countries have delivered genetically fast growing strains to farmers and producers. The economic benefits resulting from the programs are substantial. The ...
Development of aquatic animal genetic improvement and dissemination programs : current status and action plans
Type: Report
WorldFish Center in collaboration with the China Academy of Fishery Sciences organized the international “Workshop on Dissemination of Improved Fish Strains: Country-Specific Action Plans” on 21-22 September (2005) in ...
Estimation of genetic change in the GIFT strain of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by comparing contemporary progeny produced by males born in 1991 or in 2003
Type: Journal Article
Genetic change in the Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was estimated by comparing the performance of the progeny produced from cryopreserved spermatozoa from the base population ...
Importance and implementation of simple and advance selective breeding programs for aquaculture species in developing countries
Type: Conference Paper
Aquaculture is predicted to play a major and ever increasing role in meeting human needs for protein. In terrestrial animal and plant species genetic improvement programs have made a substantial contribution to productivity ...
Accounting for genotype by environment interaction in economic appraisal of genetic improvement programs in common carp Cyprinus carpio
Type: Journal Article
In this study we examine effects of genotype by environment (G×E) interaction due to re-ranking and scaling effects on economic benefit (EB) and benefit to cost ratio (BCR) from a genetic improvement program in common carp ...
Genetic improvement of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus): present and future
Type: Conference Paper
We mainly (but not exclusively) draw upon research and development work carried out by The WorldFish Center (WorldFish). We review the current state of development of selection programs that have had a main focus on growth ...
Estimation of genetic change in the GIFT strain by comparing contemporary progeny produced by males born in 1991 or 2003
Type: Conference Paper
During the development of the GIFT (Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia) strain in Philippines sperm was frozen from a sample of males from founder stocks and subsequent generations. In this paper a comparison of progeny ...
Genetic improvement of farmed tilapias: composition and genetic parameters of a synthetic base population of Oreochromis niloticus for selective breeding
Type: Journal Article
The present study is based on data recorded from fish of the third generation of the GIFT project (Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapias). The objective of the study was to compose a synthetic base population of Nile ...
Heritability estimates and response to selection for growth of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in low-input earthen ponds
Type: Journal Article
This study presents results of two generations of selection (G1 and G2) for growth of Nile tilapia. The selection environment consisted of earthen ponds which were fertilized daily with 50 kg dry matter (dm)/ha chicken ...
Mass selection for increased body weight at harvest over five generations in silver barb, Puntius gonionotus
Type: Conference Paper
Silver barb (Puntius gonionotus Bleeker 1850) is an Asian carp that is popular as a food fish. It is distributed throughout Thailand in rivers, canals, reservoirs and swamps. It is also cultured in ponds and paddy fields. ...