Heritability and genetic correlations for infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus load,body weight at harvest,and survival rate in Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) |
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Authors: | Hortencia Hernández-Ruíz Hugo H. Montaldo Jaime Bustos-Martínez Gabriel R. Campos-Montes Héctor Castillo-Juárez |
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Affiliation: | 1. Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico;2. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico;3. Depto. Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico;4. Depto. El Hombre y su Ambiente, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico |
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Abstract: | Heritability and genetic correlations for body weight at harvest size (BW), grow-out survival (SU), and log-transformed infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV) load (VLln) in Litopenaeus vannamei were estimated. Data were obtained in 2012 from a shrimp breeding population in Mexico using 12,440 shrimp for BW and 16,814 shrimp for SU, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction determinations from 160 full-sib families were obtained for VLln. DNA was extracted from pooled muscle samples of six shrimp per family for a total of 960 individuals. Heritability estimates for BW, SU, and VLln at the family mean and at individual levels were 0.24 ± 0.08, 0.02 ± 0.01, 0.42 ± 0.45, and 0.08 ± 0.11, respectively. Genetic correlation estimates of BW with SU, BW with VLln, and VLln with SU were 0.40, −0.04, and −0.57, respectively. Our results suggest that VLln has genetic variation and a favorable genetic association with BW and SU. No serious drawbacks were found from selection responses estimated using single-trait and multitrait indices to increase BW and SU and decrease VLln. Favorable correlated responses for IHHNV tolerance estimated as BW/VLln and SU/VLln were also found. This study offers new insights into the possibility of using IHHNV viral load as a possible selection criterion in L. vannamei breeding programs. |
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Keywords: | body weight genetic parameters IHHNV viral load Litopenaeus vannamei survival rate |
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