Abstract
The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) is an important species in freshwater aquaculture both in China and on a global scale. Variety degeneration and frequent diseases have limited the further development of grass carp aquaculture. Thus, new and improved varieties are required. Here, we identified and assessed the body weight and disease resistance in a random mating population of 19 â × 22 â grass carp, which were derived from different water systems. In both the growth experimental group of 10,245 fish and grass carp reovirus (GCRV)-infected group with 10,000 fish, 78 full-sib families were statistically analyzed for body weight and GCRV resistance. The findings showed that body weight traits had low heritability (0.11 ± 0.04, 0.10 ± 0.03 and 0.12 ± 0.05), GCRV resistance traits had high heritability (0.63 ± 0.11); body weight was higher in 3 families, whereas GCRV resistance was significantly greater in 11 families. Our results confirmed that the natural germplasm resources of wild grass carp were genetically diverse. Breeding of GCRV resistant varieties of grass carp have better genetic basis. This study provides the basis for constructing basal populations for grass carp selective breeding, quantitative trait loci (QTL) and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) analysis.
Highlights
The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) is an important freshwater fish with the highest output in fish farming worldwide, and its production accounted for 15.6% of global freshwater aquaculture production in 2011 [1]
Specimens selected from a population in Heilongjiang River in China increased the growth rate by 11.5% [6], whereas disease-resistant grass carp lines were harvested from hybridized generations between Cyprinus carpio and grass carp
Detection of polymorphism in 41 wild-type grass carp parents showed that 16 pairs of primers obtained high quality amplification bands in 42 pairs of designed primers
Summary
The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) is an important freshwater fish with the highest output in fish farming worldwide, and its production accounted for 15.6% of global freshwater aquaculture production in 2011 [1]. Grass carp reovirus (GCRV) is an important fish pathogen involved in hemorrhagic disease, mainly infecting young fish fingerlings and yearlings of grass carp and Mylopharyngodon piceus [4] This virus is widespread in south China and causes severe economic devastating losses to national aquaculture industries [5]. Specimens selected from a population in Heilongjiang River in China increased the growth rate by 11.5% [6], whereas disease-resistant grass carp lines were harvested from hybridized generations between Cyprinus carpio and grass carp This cross increased GCRV resistance by 54.69% [7], but has not been commercialized yet due to the genetic instability of the hybrid fish. It is critical to improve the breeding efficiency to promote the cultivation of varieties of fish [8, 9]
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