Artificial family selection based on growth rate in cultivated lines of Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda, Penaeidae) from Venezuela

We investigated the effects of family selection on the growth rates of four genetic lines of Litopenaeus vannamei, the Pacific white shrimp, from Venezuela. The mean family weight at selection was 16.79 g and the mean growth rate was 0.169 g d-1 at a mean age of 138 days. The mean growth rates per g...

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Main Authors: Marcos De Donato, Raúl Ramirez, Chris Howell, Roberto Verginelli, Tomás Orta, Saúl Cabrera, Enrique Mata, Ramón Manrique
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2008-12-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572008000500009