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Local ancestry inference provides insight into Tilapia breeding programmes.
Scientific reports - 29 Oct 2020
Avallone Alex, Bartie Kerry L, Selly Sarah-Louise C, Taslima Khanam, Campos Mendoza Antonio, Bekaert Michaël
Abstract excerpt
Tilapia is one of the most commercially valuable species in aquaculture with over 5 million tonnes of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, produced worldwide every year. It has become increasingly important to keep track of the inheritance of the selected traits under continuous improvement (e.g. growth rate, size at maturity or genetic gender), as selective breeding has also resulted in genes that can hitchhike...
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