Article
Polyploid fish and shellfish: Production, biology and applications to aquaculture for performance improvement and genetic containment
2009-08-01
Abstract excerpt
Polyploids can be defined as organisms with one or more additional chromosome sets with respect to the number most frequently found in nature for a given species. Triploids, organisms with three sets of homologous chromosomes, are found spontaneously in both wild and cultured populations and can be easily induced in many commercially relevant species of fish and shellfish. The major consequence of triploidy is gon...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1bb78a4b-66c0-5043-a7e5-643dadbb6b37
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2009.04.036
