“…Genetic improvement programmes can increase the economic efficiency of farmed shrimp (Argue, Arce, Lotz & Moss ; Pérez‐Rostro & Ibarra ,b; Gitterle, Rye, Salte, Cock, Johansen, Lozano, Suárez & Gjerde ; Gitterle, Salte, Gjerde, Cock, Johansen, Salazar, Lozano & Rye ; Castillo‐Juárez, Casares, Campos‐Montes, Villela, Ortega & Montaldo ; Andriantahina, Liu & Huang ; Campos‐Montes, Montaldo, Martínez‐Ortega, Jiménez & Castillo‐Juárez ). Selective breeding programmes have been conducted for several species, including Fenneropenaeus chinensis (Zhang, Kong, Luan, Wang, Luo & Tian ), Penaeus monodon (Kenway, Macbeth, Salmon, McPhee, Benzie, Wilson & Knibb ; Krishna, Gopikrishna, Gopal, Jahageerdar, Ravichandran, Kannappan, Pillai, Paulpandi, Kiran, Saraswati, Venugopal, Kumar, Gitterle, Lozano, Rye & Hayes ; Sun, Huang, Jiang, Yang, Zhou, Zhu, Yang & Su ), Penaeus japonicas (Hetzel, Crocos, Davis, Moore & Preston ), Oreochromis niloticus (Charo‐Karisa, Komen, Rezk, Ponzoni, van Arendonk & Bovenhuis ) and Macrobrachium rosenbergii (Luan, Wang, Yang, Luo, Chen, Gao, Hu & Kong ). Selective breeding programmes for L. vannamei also have been conducted widely in the word and achieved remarkable results, by which its world production has increased to 45% in 2008 from 13% in 1993 (Gjedrem ).…”