Toward genome-based selection in Asian seabass: what can we learn from other food fishes and farm animals?

Orbán, László, Shen, Xueyan, Phua, Norman, and Varga, László (2021) Toward genome-based selection in Asian seabass: what can we learn from other food fishes and farm animals? Frontiers in Genetics, 12. 506754.

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Abstract

Due to the steadily increasing need for seafood and the plateauing output of fisheries, more fish need to be produced by aquaculture production. In parallel with the improvement of farming methods, elite food fish lines with superior traits for production must be generated by selection programs that utilize cutting-edge tools of genomics. The purpose of this review is to provide a historical overview and status report of a selection program performed on a catadromous predator, the Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer, Bloch 1790) that can change its sex during its lifetime. We describe the practices of wet lab, farm and lab in detail by focusing onto the foundations and achievements of the program. In addition to the approaches used for selection, our review also provides an inventory of genetic/genomic platforms and technologies developed to (i) provide current and future support for the selection process; and (ii) improve our understanding of the biology of the species. Approaches used for the improvement of terrestrial farm animals are used as examples and references, as those processes are far ahead of the ones used in aquaculture and thus they might help those working on fish to select the best possible options and avoid potential pitfalls.

Item ID: 58870
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1664-8021
Keywords: marker-assisted selection, genome-wide association study, transcriptome, genome sequencing and assembly, selected lines, aquaculture, marine predator, teleost
Copyright Information: © 2021 Orbán, Shen, Phua and Varga. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Funders: National Research Foundation (NRF), Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) of Singapore, Frontline Research Excellence Grant of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (FREG)
Projects and Grants: NRF-CRP7-2010-001, FREG KKP 126764
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2021 01:45
FoR Codes: 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3105 Genetics > 310599 Genetics not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 10 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 1002 Fisheries - aquaculture > 100202 Aquaculture fin fish (excl. tuna) @ 100%
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