A review on genome mapping of penaeid shrimps of commercial importance

Genome mapping of any organism has become vital and most essential to control the gene related functions and also for the production of new traits of the desired properties. Gene mapping has become a very powerful tool in agriculture sector as well as for terrestrial livestock and going to revolutionize both these sectors from the point of view of enhancing production. However, for aquatic organisms, the information pertaining to gene mapping research is limited and only in recent past few attempts have been made in this direction. The rationale behind genome mapping particularly for aquaculture species is to improve the quality of animals through selective breeding and produce genetically superior traits for commercial production. There is a great potential in this field since most of the aquaculture species have not been subjected to genetic improvement. The advantage of gene mapping tool for any organism is to identify and characterize quantitative trait loci associated with commercial important traits and to use these markers in marker‐assisted selection programmes. Now with advent of gene editing (CRIPSR‐Cas) technology one can modify/repair the gene structure and remove the adverse impact of the gene related characters without replacing the whole genome. Gene mapping of polygenic traits of aquaculture species is also gaining lot of importance because of dominant nature of such additional functional genes with unique predominant character in the species. In the present review, attempts have been made to collect details of information on gene mapping of cultivable penaeid shrimps. Furthermore, how these gene maps can be used to modify the gene structure at the targeted cites using gene editing techniques, has also been discussed.