Li Y, Ponzoni R W
CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
J Anim Breed Genet. 2015 Apr;132(2):169-75. doi: 10.1111/jbg.12143.
The aquaculture industry is one of the fastest growing animal food-producing sectors in the world, largely driven by an increasing demand for high-quality protein from developing countries. However, the majority of cultured production of aquatic species currently relies heavily on the collection of wild animals for use as broodstock. Aquatic animal domestication and genetic selection programmes in controlled environments are essential to enable the provision of a continued supply of high-quality food for an ever-expanding world population. Professor John James' significant contributions to the genetic improvement of conventional livestock species are well known. By contrast, his contributions to the aquaculture industry are less well known, especially in the areas of design and conduct of selective breeding programmes in aquatic animal species. In this study, we focus on a few aspects of aquaculture genetics to which Professor James made substantial contributions. His outstanding ability to comprehend, clarify and simplify complex problems with easy-to-understand mathematical derivations is clearly demonstrated in the areas of large-scale strain comparisons, genotype-by-environment interactions (GxE), transformations and interpretation of selection response, as well as in the treatment of economic aspects of designing breeding programmes.
水产养殖业是世界上增长最快的动物食品生产部门之一，主要是受发展中国家对优质蛋白质需求不断增加的推动。然而，目前大多数水产养殖品种的生产严重依赖于收集野生动物作为亲鱼。在可控环境中开展水生动物驯化和遗传选择计划对于为不断增长的世界人口持续提供高质量食物至关重要。约翰·詹姆斯教授对传统家畜品种的遗传改良做出了重大贡献，这是广为人知的。相比之下，他对水产养殖业的贡献却鲜为人知，尤其是在水生动物品种选育计划的设计和实施方面。在本研究中，我们聚焦于詹姆斯教授做出了重大贡献的水产养殖遗传学的几个方面。在大规模品系比较、基因型与环境互作（GxE）、选择反应的转化与解读以及育种计划设计的经济方面处理等领域，都清楚地展现了他运用易于理解的数学推导来理解、阐明和简化复杂问题的杰出能力。
