Fundamentals of Fish Genetics & Breeding

1. Introduction to fish genetics and breeding
2. Principles of fish genetics and breeding
3. Gene and chromosome as basis of inheritance
4. Mendel’s law of inheritance
5. Complete and Incomplete dominance, monohybrid and dihybrid ratios
6. Gene interactions-Dominant and Recessive epistasis
7. Pleiotropism
8. Lethal Genes
9. Mutation
10. Sex-Linked genes, sex influenced and sex limited traits
11. Linkage and crossing over
12. Introduction to population genetics, Hardy-Weinberg law and its significance
13. Chromosome structure and aberrations
14. Chromosome manipulation techniques- androgenesis, gynogenesis and polyploidy, identification of ploidy
15. Sex determination
16. Cross breeding (hybridization)-Types of cross breeding
17. Heterosis and design of cross breeding programmes
18. Hybridization in different fishes
19. Quantitative Genetics
20. History and present status of selective breeding programs in aquaculture
21. Inbreeding and its consequences
22. Domestication methods
23. Seed certification and quarantine procedures
24. Cryopreservation of gametes
25. One gene One enzyme hypothesis
26. Genetic tools for Aquaculture application
27. Karyotyping and chromosome banding
28. GMO and biosafety regulations
29. Problem solving section