EFFECT OF ALBINO GENE ON INTRASPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION OF NORMAL AND ALBINO AFRICAN CATFISH (CLARIAS GARIEPINUS)
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The demand for high quality protein especially from aquatic resources is rising, Clarias gariepinus is the most common and have received much attention because of its economic importance and high rate of success in rearing them (Adewolu et al. 2009). Albinism in catfish is the best known potentially valuable qualitative traits and inherited as a single homozygous recessive trait (Bondari, 1981). The ...
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