High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

The production of most farmed molluscs, including mussels, oysters, scallops, abalone, and
clams, is heavily dependent on natural seed from the plankton. Closing the lifecycle of …

Sex differences in overall recombination rates are well known, but little theoretical or
empirical attention has been given to how and why sexes differ in their recombination …

Selective breeding programs have been initiated worldwide for the Pacific oyster
Crassostrea gigas to improve economically important traits such as growth and disease …

Network‐based approaches are emerging as valuable tools for the analysis of complex
genetic structure in wild and captive populations. netview p combines data quality control …

The sex determination system in crabs is believed to be XY-XX from karyotypy, but
centromeres could not be identified in some chromosomes and their morphology is not …

Ostreid herpesvirus (OsHV) can cause mass mortality events in Pacific oyster aquaculture.
While various factors impact on the severity of outbreaks, it is clear that genetic resistance of …

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are weather-timescale extreme events in the oceans and can
have devastating effects on marine bivalves and ecosystems they support, with considerable …

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can severely affect bivalves and ecosystems they support. Heat
shock proteins (HSPs) are a group of molecular chaperones playing a critical role in the …

Oysters are among the most important species in global aquaculture. Crassostrea gigas,
and its subspecies C. angulata, are the major cultured species. To determine the genetic …