Harnessing genomics to fast-track genetic improvement in aquaculture

Ross D. Houston; Tim P. Bean; Daniel J. MacQueen; Manu Kumar Gundappa; Ye Hwa Jin; Tom L. Jenkins; Sarah Louise C. Selly; Samuel A. M. Martin; Jamie R. Stevens; Eduarda M. Santos; Andrew Davie; Diego Robledo

doi:10.1038/s41576-020-0227-y

Harnessing genomics to fast-track genetic improvement in aquaculture

Ross D. Houston^*, Tim P. Bean, Daniel J. MacQueen, Manu Kumar Gundappa, Ye Hwa Jin, Tom L. Jenkins, Sarah Louise C. Selly, Samuel A. M. Martin, Jamie R. Stevens, Eduarda M. Santos, Andrew Davie, Diego Robledo

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Abstract

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, aquaculture production is derived from numerous, exceptionally diverse species that are typically in the early stages of domestication. Genetic improvement of production traits via well-designed, managed breeding programmes has great potential to help meet the rising seafood demand driven by human population growth. Supported by continuous advances in sequencing and bioinformatics, genomics is increasingly being applied across the broad range of aquaculture species and at all stages of the domestication process to optimize selective breeding. In the future, combining genomic selection with biotechnological innovations, such as genome editing and surrogate broodstock technologies, may further expedite genetic improvement in aquaculture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	389-409
Number of pages	21
Journal	Nature Reviews Genetics
Volume	21
Issue number	7
Early online date	16 Apr 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-020-0227-y
Publication status	Published - Jul 2020

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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge funding from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre via the AquaLeap project (reference numbers BB/S004343/1, BB/S004181/1, BB/S004416/1 and BB/S004300/1), and BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme grants (BBS/E/D/20241866, BBS/E/D/20002172 and BBS/E/D/20002174).

Keywords

Agricultural genetics
Animal breeding
Evolutionary biology
Genomics
INFECTIOUS PANCREATIC NECROSIS
PISCIRICKETTSIA-SALMONIS
SEX DETERMINATION
FISH
BREEDING PROGRAMS
WIDE ASSOCIATION
LYMPHOCYSTIS DISEASE
SELECTION
ATLANTIC SALMON
DISEASE RESISTANCE

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