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Rainbow trout resistance to bacterial cold-water disease is moderately heritable and is not adversely correlated with growth.
Journal of animal science - 1 Mar 2009
Silverstein J T, Vallejo R L, Palti Y, Leeds T D, Rexroad C E, Welch T J, Wiens G D, Ducrocq V
Abstract excerpt
The objectives of this study were to estimate the heritabilities for and genetic correlations among resistance to bacterial cold-water disease and growth traits in a population of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Bacterial cold-water disease, a chronic disease of rainbow trout, is caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum. This bacterium also causes acute losses in young fish, known as rainbow trout fry...
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