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Genomic prediction of host resistance to sea lice in farmed Atlantic salmon populations.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 29 Jun 2016
Tsai Hsin-Yuan, Hamilton Alastair, Tinch Alan E, Guy Derrick R, Bron James E, Taggart John B, Gharbi Karim, Stear Michael, Matika Oswald, Pong-Wong Ricardo, Bishop Steve C, Houston Ross D
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BACKGROUND: Sea lice have significant negative economic and welfare impacts on marine Atlantic salmon farming. Since host resistance to sea lice has a substantial genetic component, selective breeding can contribute to control of lice. Genomic selection uses genome-wide marker information to predict breeding values, and can achieve markedly higher accuracy than pedigree-based methods. Our aim was to assess the...
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