FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Potential of genomic selection for growth, meat content and colour traits in mixed-family breeding designs for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas BT AF Jourdan, Antoine Morvezen, Romain Enez, Florian Haffray, Pierrick Lange, Adeline Vétois, Emilie Allal, Francois Phocas, Florence Bugeon, Jérôme Dégremont, Lionel Boudry, Pierre AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:3;6:4;7:5;8:6;9:7;10:2;11:8; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS;8:;9:;10:PDG-RBE-ASIM;11:PDG-RBE; C1 SYSAAF, Station LPGP/INRAE, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes 35042, France Ifremer, RBE, ASIM, Avenue lede Mus de Loup – Ronce-les-Bains, La Tremblade 17390, France France Naissain, Bouin 85230, France SATMAR, Gatteville 50760, France MARBEC, Université Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Palavas-les-Flots, France Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas 78350, France INRAE, LPGP, Rennes 35000, France Ifremer, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Plouzané 29280, France C2 SYSAAF, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE FRANCE NAISSAIN, FRANCE SATMAR, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV PARIS-SACLAY, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI LA TREMBLADE PALAVAS BREST SE PDG-RBE-ASIM PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS PDG-RBE UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-univ-france IF 4.5 TC 4 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00846/95839/106236.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Mollusc;Aquaculture;Genomic selection;Prediction accuracy;Breeding program;Linkage disequilibrium AB Selective breeding programs have been initiated worldwide for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas to improve economically important traits such as growth and disease resistance. The emergence of genomic tools has allowed novel perspectives for using genomic selection (GS) in mixed-family breeding designs, which are cheaper and easier to develop than classical breeding schemes. In this study, we evaluated the potential of GS for different growth-related and shell colour traits in two independent commercially selected populations (P1 and P2), based on mixed-family designs. From ≈14.5K informative SNPs genotyped with the bi-species Axiom Affymetrix 57K oyster array, ≈12.5K were mapped on the reference genome. A strong heterogeneity of marker density between and within chromosomes was reported, with a low linkage disequilibrium (below 0.1 at 0.1 Mb) between pairs of SNPs. The within-population structure was homogenous for each population, with effective sizes of 107 for P1 and 76 for P2. Heritability was estimated for each trait and population and ranged from 0.08 ± 0.04 (for mean darkness intensity in P1) to 0.56 ± 0.08 (for the mean upper valve b* value in P2) for a pedigree-based model and from 0.04 ± 0.02 (for mean darkness intensity in P1) to 0.69 ± 0.04 (for the mean darkness intensity in P2) for a genomic-based model. Growth-related traits were generally highly genetically and positively correlated with each other, but weakly correlated with colour traits. Accuracy of prediction was generally higher with the genomic model (GBLUP) than with the classical BLUP model, with a maximum gain of accuracy (from 0.38 to 0.66) for flesh weight adjusted by total weight in P2. Accuracy of breeding values was slightly higher for colour traits for P2, with higher heritability estimates. Overall, our results indicate that GS has a good potential to be implemented in mixed-family breeding programs in a shellfish such as C. gigas. PY 2023 PD NOV SO Aquaculture SN 0044-8486 PU Elsevier BV VL 576 UT 001043810200001 DI 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.739878 ID 95839 ER EF