Super Shrimp Designed at Ben-Gurion University Could Increase Yield and Prevent Disease
Single-sex prawns could help alleviate poverty, reduce disease and protect the environment, according to researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) who have developed a monosex prawn that may make this winning trifecta possible.
In a groundbreaking study in Nature's Scientific Reports, the BGU group highlights the development of a "super shrimp" which, for the first time, only produces femalr all-female aquaculture in the economically important prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), the researchers achieved - for the first time - WW males using androgenic gland cells transplantation...
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