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To evaluate the effect of genetic improvement of the turbot Scophthalmus maximus, we analyzed morphological differences between a fast-growing strain obtained by family selection and the common cultured strain, by principal component analysis, stepwise discriminant analysis, and t -tests. Although they clearly differed morphologically, plots of the principal components of the two strains partially overlapped. However, the difference between the strains was supported with very high precision by discriminant analysis. The t -tests revealed that 4 of the 13 morphological traits analyzed were highly significantly different (P <0.01), 4 traits also differed significantly (P <0.05), and the remainder did not differ significantly. The coefficients of difference of the 13 traits were all lower than the threshold value between subspecies (1.28). Together, the results indicate that a trend for segregation of characters from the common cultured strain have already appeared in the selected fast-growing strain but the degree of segregation have not risen to subspecies level.
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Supported by the Fund for Modern Agro-Industry Technology Research System (No. CARS-50), the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (No. 2006BAD01A12012), and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2012AA10A408-8)
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Liang, X., Ma, A., Wang, X. et al. Morphological comparison between a selected fast-growing strain and the common cultured strain of turbot Scophthalmus maximus . Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 563–568 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1223-7
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