The Fleckvieh breed, while internationally recognized as a dual-purpose breed is primarily used as a beef production animal in Ireland. However because of ever increasing pressure to improve efficiency, it is now accepted in Irish cattle breeding that beef production characteristics should be included in the national dairy cattle breeding programme. This development was accepted following a com...

the maintenance of the endangered caspian brown trout salmo trutta caspius populations in iran depends on its artificial breeding. there is no information on how current hatchery breeding protocol influences effective population size of breeders (ne), which is a critical parameter to maintain genetic diversity in future generations. the current hatchery protocol (chp) was comparatively evaluate...

Artificial container-breeding mosquitoes, such as Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, and Culex pipiens, are well-recognized vectors of diseases throughout the world. Cemeteries are considered major sources of mosquitoes and the results of more than 30 studies concerning mosquitoes in cemeteries have been published over the last decade. The characteristics of these environments in regard to the avai...

Artificial neural networks is a method which based on artificial intelligence, has been emerged according to the working principles of the human brain nerve cells. Especially in the modelling of nonlinear systems, with the information learned through experience similarly to humans, it provides classification, pattern recognition, optimization and allows the realization of forward-looking foreca...

Aquaculture has been the fastest-growing area of worldwide food production and is becoming a vital component global economy to feed rising world population. Hence, directed toward continuing current level per head consumption, comprehensive aquaculture needs attain eighty million tonnes by 2050. However, some cultured marine fish species, such as salmonids, striped bass, gilthead seabream, well...