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Reducing the Common Environmental Effect on Litopenaeus vannamei Body Weight by Rearing Communally at Early Developmental Stages and Using a Reconstructed Pedigree

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Heritability estimates may be severely biased when a large common environmental effect on a family arises from a long-lasting separate rearing at early stages (SRES) in traditional selective breeding programs, especially when bred populations have weak genetic ties. Communal rearing at early stages (CRES) may reduce common environmental effect since all families are reared in the same environment immediately after hatching. Here, we compared the effects of CRES and SRES strategies on genetic parameter estimation for harvest body weight in a selective breeding population of Litopenaeus vannamei with a small number of half-sib families. Genetic parameters of each strategy were estimated by using animal models excluding and including the common environmental effect (Model 1 and Model 2, respectively). Heritability estimates for body weight were 0.21±0.06 (P <0.05) and 0.69±0.09 (P <0.05) for CRES and SRES, respectively, in Model 1, and 0.21 ±0.06 (P <0.05) and 0.52±0.27 (P >0.05) in Model 2. The ratio of common environmental variance to phenotypic variance was 0.002 ±0.000 and 0.071 ±0.112 for CRES and SRES, respectively. Neither strategy precisely partitioned the common environmental variance according to likelihood ratio test. Lower heritability for body weight in CRES than in SRES implied that a large common environmental variance was confounded with additive genetic variance and was not effectively partitioned in SRES. Moreover, genetic correlation of body weight between the two strategies was 0.75±0.15, indicating that family rankings truly changed. The CRES should be followed in the selective breeding program of shrimp, especially in a population with a shallow pedigree and weak genetic ties between families.

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This research was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFD0901301), the Shandong Province’s Agricultural Seed Improvement Project (No. 2017LZN011), the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund, CAFS (No. 20603 022020003), the China Agriculture Research System (CARS-48), the Projects of International Exchange and Cooperation in Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China-Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation in Aquaculture with Tropical Countries, the Introduction of International Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology Plan of China (No. 2016-X39), and the Major Applied Technology Innovation Project of Agriculture in Shandong Province (No. SD2019YY001).

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    Zhangwei Kong, Jie Kong, Dongchun Hao, Xia Lu, Tan Jian, Xianhong Meng, Kun Luo, Baoxiang Cao, Juan Sui, Xupeng Li & Sheng Luan

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    Jie Kong, Xia Lu, Tan Jian, Xianhong Meng, Kun Luo, Baoxiang Cao, Juan Sui, Xupeng Li & Sheng Luan

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Kong, Z., Kong, J., Hao, D. et al. Reducing the Common Environmental Effect on Litopenaeus vannamei Body Weight by Rearing Communally at Early Developmental Stages and Using a Reconstructed Pedigree. J. Ocean Univ. China 19, 923–930 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-020-4324-5

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