Genetics and breeding of common carp / / Valentin S. Kirpitchnikov

• Autore: Kirpitchnikov Valentin S.
• Pubblicazione: Paris : , : Inra, , [1999]; ©1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (108 p.)
• Disciplina: 639.37483
• Soggetto topico: Carp - Breeding; Fishes - Germplasm resources
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. The origin of domesticated breeds of common carp""; ""2. The karyotype of the common carp and the genetic mechanism of sex determination""; ""The chromosome number of common carp and the problem of polyploidy""; ""Sex determination in the common carp""; ""3. Genetics of quantitative traits in the common carp""; ""Scale cover""; ""Pigmentation""; ""Other morphological traits""; ""Biochemical genetics""; ""Blood groups and histocompatibility""; ""Linkage relations""; ""The conservation of variation : a practical problem"" ; ""4. Biometrical genetics of the common carp""""Variation of quantitative traits""; ""Polygenic inheritance in carp""; ""Phenotypical and genetic correlations between variable traits""; ""Genorype-environment interaction""; ""5. Inbreeding and inbreeding depression""; ""6. Gynogenesis, androgenesis and polyploidy in the common carp""; ""Spontaneous gynogenesis""; ""Induced gynogenesis""; ""Peculiarities of diploid gynogenetic carp and the application of gynogenesis to genetic studies""; ""Androgenesis""; ""Polyploidy in the common carp""; ""7. Sex regulation in common carp"" ; ""Production of unisex offspring""""Sex reversal in young fish by steroid hormones""; ""Crossing transformed males with normal females""; ""Polyploidy as a mechanism of sex regulation""; ""8. Genetic engineering in the carp : the state of the art and future prospects""; ""Introduction""; ""Gene cloning""; ""Methods""; ""Prospects for the practical use of genetic engineering in carp culture""; ""9. Selection and breeding of the common carp""; ""The objectives of artificial selection""; ""Methods of selection""; ""The most important carp breeds and breeding programmes"" ; ""Commercial hybridization""""Interspecific hybridization""; ""References""
• Titolo autorizzato: Genetics and breeding of common carp
• ISBN: 2-7592-1265-3; 2-7592-0528-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459989003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Hydrobiologie at aquaculture.