Eight single nucleotide polymorphisms and their association with food habit domestication traits and growth traits in largemouth bass fry (Micropterus salmoides) based on PCR-RFLP method.

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Background: The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), an economically important freshwater fish species widely farmed in China, is traditionally cultured using a diet of forage fish. However, given the global decline in forage fish fisheries and increasing rates of waterbody pollution and disease outbreaks during traditional culturing, there is a growing trend of replacing forage fish with formulated feed in...

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