The National Fisheries Institute (Inapesca), the Center for Food Research and Development (ICAS) and National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) work on a science project to achieve the production of highly healthy and disease resistant shrimp in culture processes.
The Directorate General for Aquaculture Research INAPESCA said that with economic support from this institution, ICAS researchers develop genomic tools to provide relevant information to counter the disease that has affected the crustacean shrimp farms in the northwest of the country in the past two years .
The studies will know which genes may be associated with families or lineages shrimp less susceptible to viral or bacterial diseases, thus contributing to the genetic improvement of this crop species and to obtain a high-quality and best market price.
Production programs
Furthermore, genomic information derived from this project will provide important data on the medium-term programs may integrate production and breeding of shrimp.
Rogerio Sotelo World, ICAS and researcher who led these studies reported that it has worked on the application of genomic tools such as transcriptónica, in order to support shrimp farmers.
He explained that these tools can identify the sequence of thousands of genes that perform digestive functions, defense and growth of crustaceans, among others.
The scientist revealed that one of the results obtained to date, has been the identification of novel components of the innate immune response and shrimp.
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