Advances in Germplasm Resources and Genetic Breeding of Aquatic Animals

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of aquaculture around the world, an increasing number of excellent new varieties are urgently needed. Meanwhile, a complete understanding of the range of germplasm resources and rudimentary breeding techniques will be more helpful in mitigating the current problems in fish breeding. This Special Issue will focus on how to retain the wild and farmed genetic resources that underpin global fish production, as well as the applied genetics approaches used for the genetic breeding of fish to increase aquaculture productivity and the conservation of fish genetic resources. Current technology, including genome selective breeding, sex-controlled breeding, and distant hybridization breeding, have shown significant efficiency. Genome selective breeding is one of the most advanced breeding techniques; on the other hand, many fish exhibit sexual dimorphism and new genes (or conventional genes with some potential undiscovered functions), and they are related to sex determination pathways that are yet to be explored. The aim of this Special Issue is to deepen our understanding of the theory and practice of fish genome selective breeding and the mechanisms of sex determination, as well as the analysis of hybridization traits.

Dr. Li-Min Wu
Dr. Dong-Neng Jiang
Dr. Qing-Ping Xie
Guest Editors

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• germplasm resources
• genetic breeding
• fish
• sex control breeding
• gonadal differentiation