Aquaculture Biotechnology Workshop 104-2 (2004)

Proceedings of the third St. Andrews aquaculture workshop, May 11-12, 2004, St. Andrews, NB

The St. Andrews workshop series began in 2002 as a collaboration between the Aquaculture Division of the St. Andrews Biological Station (DFO) and the Aquaculture Association of Canada. This proceedings is a product of the collaboration and was partially funded by DFO (Ottawa).

Introduction to the workshop
Ed Trippel and Peggy Tsang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Invited Papers
Research Directions in Breeding Programs
A new era: The merging of quantitative and molecular genetics—prospects for aquaculture
breeding programs
Hans Magnus Gjøen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Genetic variability and selective breeding for traits of aquacultural interest in the Pacific
oyster (Crassostrea gigas)
Pierre Boudry, Lionel Dégremont , Nicolas Taris, Helen McCombie, Pierrick Haffray and
Bruno Ernande . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Use of molecular genetic markers in Atlantic halibut broodstock management
Debbie Martin-Robichaud, Darrin Reid, Tim Jackson and Mike Reith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Reproductive Manipulation
Oyster breeding and the use of biotechnology
Ximing Guo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Production of all-female populations of coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, using
Y-chro mo somal DNA markers
Justin Henry, Dionne Sakhrani and Robert H. Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Production of all-female and sterile fish populations of fish for aquaculture.
Tillmann Benfey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Intellectual Property
Intellectual property and intellectual wealth
Keith Culver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Aquatic Animal Health
The role of molecular biology in international regulation: shellfish health
Kimberly Reece and Eugene Burreson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Detection and characterization of nodavirus in several marine fish species from the
northeastern Atlantic
N. Gagné, S. C. Johnson, M. Cook-Versloot, A.-M. MacKinnon and G. Olivier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

The use of molecular technology in the study of host-pathogen relationships
Andrew Dacanay, Jessica M. Boyd, Laura L. Brown, Roger O. Ebanks, Stewart C. Johnson,
Michael E. Reith, Kirty S. Solanky and John A. Walter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Molecular studies in in fectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV)
Frederick S. B. Kibenge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Molecular tools for aquatic animal health: past and future perspectives
Douglas McIntosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Contributed Papers
Using sperm cryo preservation to advance marine finfish aquaculture
Rick M. Rideout, Edward A. Trippel and Matthew K. Litvak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Molecular pathology in ISAV infection
Emeka E. Moneke, Tomy Joseph, Basil O. Ikede and Frederick S. B. Kibenge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Molecular genet ics research on cultivated oyster species in Nova Scotia
Bénédikte Vercaemer, Koren Spence and Ellen Kenchington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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