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Health & Welfare
Diversity loss in captive-breeding programs for shrimp
It is important for any breeding program that founding populations be large enough to incorporate the diversity of the wild animals.
Health & Welfare
Genetic diversity loss occurs in any stock of shrimp allowed to inbreed at random. Intentional inbreeding for performance traits accelerates rate of loss.
Health & Welfare
It is important for any breeding program that founding populations be large enough to incorporate the diversity of the wild animals.