Harnessing genomics to fast-track genetic improvement in aquaculture

RD Houston, TP Bean, DJ Macqueen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing farmed food sector and will soon become the primary
source of fish and shellfish for human diets. In contrast to crop and livestock production …

Harnessing genomic information for livestock improvement

M Georges, C Charlier, B Hayes - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
The world demand for animal-based food products is anticipated to increase by 70% by
2050. Meeting this demand in a way that has a minimal impact on the environment will …

The crucial role of genome-wide genetic variation in conservation

M Kardos, EE Armstrong… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The unprecedented rate of extinction calls for efficient use of genetics to help conserve
biodiversity. Several recent genomic and simulation-based studies have argued that the …

The role of sex in the genomics of human complex traits

EA Khramtsova, LK Davis, BE Stranger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Nearly all human complex traits and disease phenotypes exhibit some degree of sex
differences, including differences in prevalence, age of onset, severity or disease …

Whole‐genome sequencing approaches for conservation biology: Advantages, limitations and practical recommendations

AP Fuentes‐Pardo, DE Ruzzante - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome resequencing (WGR) is a powerful method for addressing fundamental
evolutionary biology questions that have not been fully resolved using traditional methods …

Harnessing the power of genomics to secure the future of seafood

L Bernatchez, M Wellenreuther, C Araneda… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Best use of scientific knowledge is required to maintain the fundamental role of seafood in
human nutrition. While it is acknowledged that genomic-based methods allow the collection …

Anadromy, potamodromy and residency in brown trout Salmo trutta: the role of genes and the environment

A Ferguson, TE Reed, TF Cross… - Journal of Fish …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Brown trout Salmo trutta is endemic to Europe, western Asia and north‐western Africa; it is a
prominent member of freshwater and coastal marine fish faunas. The species shows two …

Sex-dependent dominance maintains migration supergene in rainbow trout

DE Pearse, NJ Barson, T Nome, G Gao… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Males and females often differ in their fitness optima for shared traits that have a shared
genetic basis, leading to sexual conflict. Morphologically differentiated sex chromosomes …

Genomic selection in aquaculture: application, limitations and opportunities with special reference to marine shrimp and pearl oysters

KR Zenger, MS Khatkar, DB Jones… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Within aquaculture industries, selection based on genomic information (genomic selection)
has the profound potential to change genetic improvement programs and production …

rehh 2.0: a reimplementation of the R package rehh to detect positive selection from haplotype structure

M Gautier, A Klassmann, R Vitalis - Molecular ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying genomic regions with unusually high local haplotype homozygosity represents a
powerful strategy to characterize candidate genes responding to natural or artificial positive …