This chapter presents a comprehensive comparisons of seven of the application programs of single nucleotide discovery through expressed sequence tags (ESTs) namely: BLAST, CLUSTALW, POLYBAYES, POLYPHRED, AUTOSNP, CLC genomics workbench, and NextGENe. The goal of this chapter is to provide some...

Traditional culture of the mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi), an important freshwater fish in China, is restricted by live bait fish, as the difficulty of utilizing plant-derived nutrients in its artificial feed hinders its industrialization of artificial feed. This study evaluated the effect of...

Progesterone is one of very important sex steroid hormones, which plays an important role during the ovarian development of crustaceans. In vertebrate, progesterone regulates the reproduction generally via progestin receptor (PR). Previous studies have shown PR is present in the ovary,...

The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) plays a critical role in homeostasis and the regulation of body weight. Polymorphisms in the mc4r gene have been discovered and linked to growth, carcass composition, and meat quality traits. Therefore, we used the CRISPR-Cas9 system to target the mc4r gene in the ...

The vitellogenesis process of crustacean includes endogenous vitellogenic stage and exogenous vitellogeneic stage because the major vitellogenesis sites of two stages are localized in ovary and hepatopancreas, respectively. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of different...

Columnaris disease has long been recognized as a serious problem worldwide which affects both wild and cultured freshwater fish including the commercially important channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). The fundamental molecular mechanisms of the host immune response to the causative agent ...

The swimming crab, Portunus trituberculatus, is a commercially important fisheries resource and mariculture species in East Asian countries. Female crab with fully developed ovary is considered as the highly nutritious seafood. Therefore, the decline in natural stock and increase in market demands...

Catfish is the primary aquaculture species in the United States. Its genome research has been conducted for almost two decades, with the ultimate goal to enhance genetic improvement programs, and better understand the biological characteristics of catfish and evolution. Major progress has been made ...

Bioinformatics derives knowledge from computer analysis of biological data. In particular, genomic and transcriptomic datasets are processed, analysed and, whenever possible, associated with experimental results from various sources, to draw structural, organizational, and functional information...

Growth is the most important economic trait in aquaculture. Improvements in growth-related traits can enhance production, reduce costs and time to produce market-size fish. Catfish is the major aquaculture species in the United States, accounting for 65% of the US finfish production. However, the...