Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concept of genomes and genomics / Zhanjiang Liu -- Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) / Zhanjiang Liu -- Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) / Zhanjiang Liu -- Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) / Zhanjiang Liu -- Microsatellite markers and assessment of marker utility / Zhanjiang Liu -- Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) / Zhanjiang Liu -- Allozyme and mitochondrial DNA markers / Huseyin Kucuktas and Zhanjiang Liu -- Individual-based genotype methods in aquaculture / Pierre Duchesne and Louis Bernatchez -- Application of DNA markers for population genetic analysis / Eric M. Hallerman, Paul J. Grobler, and Jess W. Jones -- Linkage mapping in aquaculture species / Roy G. Danzmann and Karim Gharbi -- Detection and analysis of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for economic traits in aquatic species / Abraham Korol ... [et al.] -- Marker-assisted selection for aquaculture species / Max F. Rothschild and Anatoly Ruvinsky -- Construction of large-insert bacterial clone libraries and their applications / Limei He ... [et al.] -- Bacterial artificial chromosome libraries and BAC-based physical mapping of aquaculture genomes / William S. Davidson -- Physical characterization of genomes through BAC end sequencing / Peng Xu, Shaolin Wang, and Zhanjiang Liu -- Genomescape: characterizing the repeat structure of the genome / Zhanjiang Liu -- Genomic analyses using fluorescence in situ hybridization / Ximing Guo, Yongping Wang, and Zhe Xu -- Radiation hybrid mapping in aquatic species / Caird E. Rexroad III -- Comparative genomics and positional cloning / Bo-Young Lee and Thomas D. Kocher -- Transcriptome characterization through the analysis of expressed sequence tags / Zhanjiang Liu -- Microarray fundamentals: basic principles and application in aquaculture / Eric Peatman and Zhanjiang Liu -- Salmonid DNA microarrays and other tools for functional genomics research / Matthew L. Rise ... [et al.] -- Computational challenges for the analysis of large datasets related to aquatic environmental genomics / Gregory W. Warr, Jonas S. Almeida, and Robert W. Chapman -- Functional genomics / Perry B. Hackett and Karl J. Clark -- DNA sequencing technologies / Zhanjiang Liu -- Sequencing the genome / Zhanjiang Liu -- Bioinformatics / Lei Liu -- Dealing with duplicated genomes of teleosts / Alan Christoffels -- Bivalve genomics: complications, challenges, and future perspectives / Jason P. Curole and Dennis Hedgecock.