The growth of worldwide aquaculture has been sustained and rapid, and the explosion of research in genetic biotechnology has made significant impact on aquaculture and fisheries, although potential for much greater progress exists. Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology: Genetic Approaches covers topics essential to the study of fish genetics, including qualitative and quantitative traits, crossbreeding, inbreeding, genetic drift, hybridization, selection programs, polyploidy, genomics and cloning. This fully updated second edition also addresses environmental risk, food safety and government regulation of transgenic aquatic organisms, commercial applications of fish biotechnology and future issues in fish genetics.

CONTENTS:

SECTION ONE: History of Biotechnology, Genetics and Selective Breeding in Aquaculture and Fisheries

SECTION TWO: Phenotypic Variation and Environmental Effects

SECTION THREE: Basic Genetics, Qualitative Traits and Selection for Qualitative Traits

SECTION FOUR: Strain Evaluation, Domestication and Strain Selection

SECTION FIVE: Population Size, Inbreeding, Random Genetic Drift and Maintenance of Genetic Quality

SECTION SIX: Gynogenesis, Androgenesis, Cloned Populations and Nuclear Transplantation

SECTION SEVEN: Intraspecific Crossbreeding

SECTION EIGHT: Interspecific Hybridization

SECTION NINE: Selection and Correlated Responses to Selection

SECTION TEN: Polyploidy and Xenogenesis

SECTION ELEVEN: Sex Reversal and Breeding

SECTION TWELVE: Biochemical and Molecular Markers

SECTION THIRTEEN: Population Genetics and Interactions of Hatchery and Wild Fish

SECTION FOURTEEN: Genomics, Gene Mapping, Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping and Marker-assisted Selection

SECTION FIFTEEN: Gene Expression

SECTION SIXTEEN: Gene-transfer Technology

SECTION SEVENTEEN: Combining Genetic Enhancement Programmes

SECTION EIGHTEEN: Genotype-Environment Interactions

SECTION NINETEEN: Commercial Application of Fish Biotechnology

SECTION TWENTY: Environmental Risk of Aquatic Organisms from Genetic Biotechnology

SECTION TWENTY ONE: Food Safety of Transgenic Aquatic Organisms

SECTION TWENTY TWO: A Case Example: Safety of Consumption of Transgenic Salmon Potentially Containing Elevated Levels of Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor

SECTION TWENTY THREE: Government Regulation of Transgenic Fish and Biotechnology Products

SECTION TWENTY FOUR: Strategies for Genetic Conservation, Gene Banking and Maintaining Genetic Quality

SECTION TWENTY FIVE: Ethics

SECTION TWENTY SIX: Constraints and Limitations of Genetic Biotechnology