Study: Inbreeding Affects Body Weight, But Not Survival In White Shrimp

摘要

Inbreeding commonly causes a decrease in the mean values of traits of productive interest in aquaculture. In a study designed to generate inbred families of Pacific white shrimp, which were the product of sibling mating in successive generations, as well as groups of families with different inbreeding coefficients, there was a significant negative effect on body weight in shrimp at 130 days of age. However, the results showed that inbreeding had no effect on growout survival from 65 to 130 days of age.