Teleost fish, which roughly make up half of the extant vertebrate species, exhibit an amazing
level of biodiversity affecting their morphology, ecology and behaviour as well as many other …

Microsatellites represent codominant molecular genetic markers, which are ubiquitously
distributed within genomes. Due to their high level of polymorphism, relatively small size and …

QTL are quantitative trait loci: genetic loci that contribute to variation in a quantitative trait.
QTL mapping is the effort to identify QTL through an experimental cross. In this book, we …

The foundation of quantitative genetics theory was developed during the last century and
facilitated many successful breeding programs for cultivated plants and t-restrial livestock …

Infectious and parasitic diseases generate large economic losses in salmon farming. A
feasible and sustainable alternative to prevent disease outbreaks may be represented by …

Salmonid fishes exhibit extensive local adaptations owing to abundant environmental
variation and precise natal homing. This extensive local adaptation makes conservation and …

The ability to identify genetic markers in nonmodel systems has allowed geneticists to
construct linkage maps for a diversity of species, and the sex-determining locus is often …

Approximately 99.9% of vertebrate species reproduce sexually. The exceptional 0.1%
reproduce via asexual or clonal means, which vary wildly and are fascinating in their own …

High density genetic linkage maps are essential for QTL fine mapping, comparative
genomics and high quality genome sequence assembly. In this study, we constructed a high …

Together with the knowledge of the population structure, a critical aspect for the planning of
association and/or population genomics studies is the level of linkage disequilibrium (LD) …