Genomic Predictions of Phenotypes and Pseudo-Phenotypes for Viral Nervous Necrosis Resistance, Cortisol Concentration, Antibody Titer and Body Weight in European Sea Bass.

In European sea bass ( L.), the viral nervous necrosis mortality (MORT), post-stress cortisol concentration (HC), antibody titer (AT) against nervous necrosis virus and body weight (BW) show significant heritability, which makes selective breeding a possible option for their improvement. An experimental population (N = 650) generated by a commercial broodstock was phenotyped for the aforementioned traits and genotyped with a genome-wide SNP panel (16,075 markers).