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AQUACULTURE RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 11, Pages 2644-2655Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/are.12419
Keywords
survival; male morphotype; diallel cross; tag loss; Macrobrachium rosenbergii
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The present study examined the variation in survival, proportion of male morphotypes, female and male proportion, female reproductive status and tag losses in nine crosses from a complete (3x3) diallel mating of three populations of Macrobrachium rosenbergii in India. The populations originated from Gujarat (north-west), Kerala (south-west) and Odisha (east), representing different agro-ecological regions in India. Progeny from 60 families (4773 juveniles) were individually tagged and reared for 16-17weeks in earthen ponds. Binary logistic regression was used to analyse the data. Survival rate was greatest (0.88) for KeralaxOdisha (KO; the first letter represents the sire), whereas it was lowest (0.75) for both KeralaxKerala (KK) and GujaratxKerala (GK). Significantly greater proportions of large male morphotypes were observed in KK cross and in combinations involving Kerala population. The highest proportion of immature females, as well as of non-berried females, was observed in the OdishaxOdisha (OO) cross. Tag loss was greatest for KK (0.35) and lowest for GG (0.19). We found significant variations among crosses for all studied traits suggesting the possibility of including them in genetic improvement programmes of this species.
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