Special Issue "Genetics Breeding for Marine Fishes"

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the rapid development of seawater cultivation methods and equipment has brought huge economic benefits to the global aquaculture industry.

However, due to the lack of good varieties of marine economy fish, the development of marine economy fish culture has been seriously hindered. Along with the rapid development of biotechnologies, aquaculture genetic breeding has evolved from traditional selection breeding and hybrid breeding to cell engineering breeding, sex control breeding, marker-assisted selection breeding, genome-wide genotyping-based selective breeding, molecular design breeding and genome editing breeding. Advances in basic research and biotechnology in the genetic breeding of marine fishes have promoted the formation of the global aquaculture seed industry.

This Special Issue aims to provide a snapshot of several current aquaculture genetic breeding practices with a focus on techniques for breeding marine fishes, gene function, genomics, population genetics, genome editing and so on. Contributions should shed light on the theoretical basis of technology for the genetic breeding of marine fishes, explore novel breeding approaches, analyze the genetic mechanisms underlying the formation of good traits and so on. To advance the knowledge of such intricate issues, we are calling for contributions by experts in the field in the form of research papers and critical reviews.

Dr. Dianchang Zhang
Dr. Kecheng Zhu
Guest Editors

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• genetic breeding
• gene function
• genomics
• gene editing
• genetic mechanism
• population genetics