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Breeding strategy and rearing environment effects on the disease resistance of cultured Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
2014-02-01
Abstract excerpt
Most Pacific salmon farms propagate fish by artificial random mating, which along with artificial hatchery rearing conditions may result in unintentional selection of undesirable traits. Alternatively, salmon can be propagated using outdoor semi-natural raceways that would provide the opportunity for both sexual and natural selection to act on offspring production. We performed a disease challenge on one-year-old...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 75f33215-e621-5eaa-b8ac-ac38a96f866c
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.12.010
