Macrobrachium nipponense, also known as river prawn, belongs to the phylum Arthropoda, Crustacea, Decapoda, and is widely distributed in freshwater and low-salinity estuaries in Japan, Korea, Vietnam and China (Li et al., 2019). M. nipponense is an important economic species in China, which is favoured by aquaculture farmers due to their short reproduction cycle, delicious meat and rich nutritional value (Hongtuo et al., 2012). In recent years, with the gradual expansion of artificial breeding operations, issues in the culturing of M. nipponense have gradually emerged, including the degradation of shrimp germplasm resources and the decline of production, which has restricted the further development of the M. nipponense culture industry (Hongtuo et al., 2012). The deterioration of M. nipponense germplasms has caused many problems, including sexual precocity, which has resulted in the failure of individual M. nipponense to grow to the size required by commercial specifications, which has greatly affected its sales market (Bai et al., 2015). Therefore, it is necessary