Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production sector and is rapidly becoming the primary
source of seafood for human diets. Selective breeding programs are enabling genetic …

The present review sums up and discusses the current literature on occurrence, causation
and pathology of vertebral deformities in farmed Atlantic salmon, and also gives a brief …

Novel genome editing techniques allow for efficient and targeted improvement of aquaculture
stock and might be a solution to solve challenges related to disease and environmental …

Treatment with double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) has been shown to interfere with the function
of specific genes in various invertebrate species. However, it has not yet been reported that …

Wild and domesticated Atlantic salmon males display large variation for sea age at sexual
maturation, which varies between 1–5 years. Previous studies have uncovered a genetic …

Introgression of farmed salmon escapees into wild stocks is a major threat to the genetic
integrity of wild populations. Using germ cell-free fish in aquaculture may mitigate this problem. …

Understanding the biological function behind key proteins is of great concern in Atlantic
salmon, both due to a high commercial importance and an interesting life history. Until recently, …

We describe an emerging initiative - the ‘Functional Annotation of All Salmonid Genomes’ (FAASG),
which will leverage the extensive trait diversity that has evolved since a whole …

In several terrestrial vertebrates, heat shock (HS) during somitogenesis causes vertebral
deformities. To determine if vertebral deformities can occur due to sudden temperature changes …

Atlantic salmon can synthesize polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), such as eicosapentaenoic
acid (20:5n-3), arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3) via …