MODEL SHRIMP-BREEDING: Program Uses BLUP Methodology

摘要

The Maricultura del Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. shrimp hatchery in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, started a new breeding program based on mixed-model Best Linear Unbiased Predictor (BLUP) methodology in March 2003. In the BLUP system, animal-breeding values are twice the amount of additive genetic gain that an individual passes to its offspring for a given trait. Supervised by animal-breeding researchers at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the program is based on methods increasingly used since the early 1980s in breeding programs for farm animals. It requires individual identification of animals or at least of the individuals pertaining to specific families.