Genomics applied to livestock and aquaculture breeding
The increasing global demand for food, due to the continuous growth of human population, requires improvements in the efficiency and sustainability of animal production systems. In addition, several challenges facing farming of aquatic and terrestrial organisms need to be overcome to ensure food...
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
2025
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| Online Access: | http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/handle/123456789/21527 |
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| Summary: | The increasing global demand for food, due to the continuous growth of human population,
requires improvements in the efficiency and sustainability of animal production
systems. In addition, several challenges facing farming of aquatic and terrestrial
organisms need to be overcome to ensure food security in the upcoming decades, e.g.
adaptation to climate change, reduced availability of conventional animal feed ingredients,
emerging infectious and parasitic diseases, among others. Genomic technologies
such as massive parallel sequencing, high-throughput
genotyping, genome selection
and gene editing, combined with highly efficient computational methods can accelerate
the rate of genetic progress in animal breeding. Thus, such technologies can help
us meet the needs for protein sources for human consumption in the upcoming years.
This Special Issue aims at presenting current advancements in the field of genomic
tools applied to aquatic and terrestrial farmed animal populations. |
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