Hatcheries are indispensable for seed production of many commercial aquaculture species. However, for mass-spawning species in particular, they can be capricious environments where genetic diversity among progeny may be lost due to small effective broodstock population sizes, variable parental...

As valuable ecosystem engineers, blue mussels, are one of the most ecologically and economically important bivalve species in Australia. The need for understanding levels of genetic diversity in both wild and farmed populations of Australian mussels is ever-growing due to the increased risk of...

Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping array is a powerful tool for providing information on polymorphic variations of species of interest. These genomic variations can be used to investigate the genetic architecture of complex traits, population structures, and genomic selection of...

The blood clam Tegillarca granosa is a commercially important bivalve species that is extensively cultivated worldwide. However, understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the growth of this species remains limited. In this study, we conducted genome-wide association studies on the growth ...

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is an enveloped and positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. IBV was the first coronavirus to be discovered and predominantly causes respiratory disease in commercial poultry worldwide. This review summarizes several important aspects of IBV, including...

This study aimed to investigate the association between polymorphisms of ND1 and CYTB genes and in vitro early embryo development of Sanjabi sheep. Blood and ovarian samples were collected from a local slaughterhouse. The cumulus-oocyte complexes with a diameter greater than 3 mm were aspirated...

Two different levels of diversity within a colony were compared for the prevalence of pathogens and diseases. Lower genetic diversity was obtained in the colonies in which the queens were inseminated with semen collected from drones originating from a single colony, while greater was obtained in...

Assessment of genetic distance between parents and selection of diverse parents are extensively used in many crops. Current study focuses the importance of genetic distance assessed through SSR markers (GD_MOL) and morphological traits (GD_MOR) in 28 fodder maize inbred lines and its impact on...

Diversity serves as the foundation for breeding and evolution. In the science of genomics, the investigation of genetic variation has long been a prominent subject. Researchers now have access to previously unheard volumes of data, thanks to the development of new genomic technologies which allow...