Genomics in aquaculture to better understand species biology and accelerate genetic progress

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Chile Santiago, Chile ; Aquainnovo Puerto Montt, Chile.
² Genus plc Hendersonville, TN, USA.
³ The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh Midlothian, UK.

José M Yáñez et al. Front Genet. 2015.

. 2015 Apr 1:6:128.

doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00128. eCollection 2015.

¹ Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Chile Santiago, Chile ; Aquainnovo Puerto Montt, Chile.
² Genus plc Hendersonville, TN, USA.
³ The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh Midlothian, UK.

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Keywords: QTL; aquaculture; breeding programs; genome; next-generation sequencing; single nucleotide polymorphisms.

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