Article
Inbreeding and disease in tropical shrimp aquaculture: a reappraisal and caution
2016-01-01
Abstract excerpt
The disease crisis facing shrimp aquaculture may be propelled, in part, by an interaction between management practices that cause inbreeding, and the amplification by inbreeding of susceptibility to disease and environmental stresses. The study describes and numerically simulates gene flow from Penaeus (Litopenaeus) vannamei hatcheries that employ a ‘Breeder Lock’ to discourage use of their PL as breeders, through...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 64438fee-cbfc-5817-a803-1dd83397138f
- DOI
- 10.1111/are.12472
