NEWSGlobal partnership enables world’s most advanced breeding programmes.
Weatherbys Scientific, a global leader in high throughput genotyping, has partnered with Genics to offer ShrimpID to the world as a bespoke genetic analysis suite for shrimp breeding programmes.
Weatherbys Scientific is an industry-leading laboratory specialising in genetic testing solutions. Over the past 30 years, Weatherbys Scientific has developed a reputation as a centre of excellence in animal genotyping. This enables farmers to utilise selective breeding programmes that leverage detailed relatedness information to deliver genetically diverse and robust production populations.
ShrimpID’s comprehensive marker set provides the data to establish detailed relatedness estimates among broodstock and tested animals, sex identification, and markers within genes that regulate productivity and disease resistance.
Dr. Rebecca Weld, General Manager at Weatherbys Scientific, commented, “The partnership between Weatherbys Scientific and Genics represents a commitment to ensuring breeders have the best tools available to them to improve the health, productivity and sustainability of their shrimp populations.
“Weatherbys Scientific offer best in class genotyping which supports some of world’s leading animal breeding programmes and we are excited to build on our partnership with Genics to ensure that Shrimp ID will have a global impact on sustainable shrimp production.”
Dr. Melony Sellars, CEO of Genics commented, “We are delighted to have partnered with Weatherbys Scientific, combining our expertise to revolutionise shrimp breeding programs and genetic analysis.
“This like-minded partnership paves the way for advancements in genetic diversity and disease resistance or tolerance, with a 100% customer (and shrimp) first focus.
“Our shared commitment to innovation and excellence is driving the development of resilient shrimp populations, empowering farmers with the data they need”.
With 60,000 markers for L.vannamei, and 7,800 markers for P.monodon, ShrimpID provides selective breeding programmes with unrivalled data quality to drive commercial performance gains — all made possible thanks to the partnership between Genics and Weatherbys Scientific.
The sustainable long term production benefits delivered through ShrimpID provides unprecedented value to industry leaders focused on improved production performance. ShimpID’s application potential is particularly valuable to industry leaders looking to embed performance traits within their genetic lines — providing unique market value propositions.
Weatherbys Scientific ensures that ShrimpID is unrivalled in high density data turnaround times, meaning your live shrimp are always given priority processing at an Accredited Laboratory.
Image: Dr. Melony Sellars, CEO of Genics and Dr. Rebecca Weld, General Manager at Weatherbys Scientific.