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The advent of molecular markers has revolutionized aquaculture through several genetic improvement programs. Since there is a growing demand for fish by the growing human population, the reduction in the fish genetic diversity can lead to its extermination. Molecular markers have proved beneficial not only in breeding programmes but also in planning conservation strategies based on genetic diversities of various fish species. These markers have been classified in various ways depending on the properties they possess such as dominant and codominant markers, type I and type II markers and linked and direct markers. The most commonly used markers in aquaculture include allozymes, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP), Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD), Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP), microsatellites, Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP). SNPs are the most widely used markers in fish population genetics study since they are found in abundance. Microsatellite markers have also been developed in several commercially important fish species for desirable traits like growth enhancement, disease resistance, etc. Microsatellites have high Polymorphism Information Content (PIC) values for which they are considered very reliable. These molecular markers have application while comparing the wild and hatchery fish population. Hence for a sustainable management of fish resources it is imperative to utilize molecular markers.
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01 January 2022
The original version of this book was inadvertently published with the incorrect affiliation (Organizational Division) as “Reproduction” for authors Dr. Janmejay Parhi and Dr. Ananya Khatei in the Front Matter and Chapters 2, 5 and 11. It has been updated as “Fish Genetics and Reproduction”.
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Khatei, A., Tripathy, P.S., Parhi, J. (2021). Molecular Markers in Aquaculture. In: Pandey, P.K., Parhi, J. (eds) Advances in Fisheries Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3215-0_11
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