Programa de mejoramiento genético.

Desde el año 1999, Texcumar ha venido realizando un excelente trabajo en el Mejoramiento Genético de nuestros nauplios y larvas, a través de un programa de selección masal y análisis de distintas enfermedades y de microsatélites para medir las distancias genéticas y niveles de consanguinidad de los lotes de reproductores que ingresan a Texcumar.

Texcumar siempre buscando la excelencia en producción empezó a realizar acercamientos con algunos grupos camaroneras con el objetivo de realizar una alianza estratégica que busque potencializar el Programa de Mejoramiento Genético de Camarón más grande del Ecuador. El objetivo es incluir a los camaroneros en el trabajo que se ha venido realizando ya hace varios años, retroalimentarnos de sus experiencias y también de sus necesidades y así establecer estrategias para buscar producciones más eficientes de camarón.

La estrategia que se decidió con la base de reproductores de Texcumar basados en una selección masal con una presión de selección mucho más agresiva, además continuar sembrando salas con reproductores libres de enfermedades y realizar los análisis de consaguinidad para tener los mejores cruces de reproductores posibles, enfocados principalmente en la característica de crecimiento.

Actualmente participan en nuestro programa de mejoramiento genético los siguientes grupos:

Grupo Fajardo
Marco Brito
Grupo Quirola
Diosmar Gonzalez
Promarisco
Naturisa
Bellamar
Nirsa
Omarsa

JOÃO (JOHN) L. ROCHA

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born 1961, citizen of Portugal.

ACADEMIC DEGREES and other RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS

The First Brian Kinghorn Shrimp and Aquaculture Breeding Workshop at Armidale - University of New England, Australia - May 2011 – founder and main proponent of the idea; attendance and active participation in Workshop designed to provide a broad technical update to selected shrimp and aquaculture breeders around the world

LEER MAS

Curriculum

Born 1961, citizen of Portugal

Ph.D. (Animal Breeding and Genetics) - 1994 - Texas A&M University, USA

M.Sc. (Animal Breeding and Genetics) - 1990 - Texas A&M University, USA

D.V.M. - 1984 - Lisbon School of Veterinary Medicine, Portugal

Independent Breeding, Genetics, and Statistics Consultant - Iowa Genetics (headquartered in

Brazil) - August 2010-present

Shrimp Breeding Program Director - PaLangosta (Panama), since June 2016; UniFinca

(Honduras), since November 2015; Larvas El Dorado/Tres Socios (Sonora, Mexico), since April

2015; Belize Aquaculture/BAL (Belize), from April 2015 to August 2017; CAMACO (Panama),

from August 2013 to January 2017; Songa/Expalsa (Ecuador), since December 2012; PrimaGen

(Indonesia), since April 2011; and Texcumar (Ecuador), since January 2011

Shrimp Breeding Program Geneticist- Aquatec/Genearch (Brazil)- 2006-present

Shrimp Breeding Program Genetics Consultant - Short-term consultancies: with Cargill

(Mexico); with shrimp breeding companies in Mexico (Grupo GAM); in Venezuela (Grupo

Lamar), Peru (MarinAzul), the Philippines (FeedMix); Panama (CAMACO); the United

States (Primo Broodstock); and Ecuador (IMEGESA, and Songa/Expalsa); and with the Sun

Yat-Sen University of Guangzhou, China; and the Federal University of S. Carlos, S.P.,

Brazil. Long-term consultancy: Integrated Aquaculture International (IAI - Brunei and Kona

Bay, Hawaii, U.S.A.) - 2006-2010

Shrimp Breeding Program Geneticist - Sygen/SyAqua (Hawaii, Mexico, Brazil, and Thailand)

- 2002-2006

Experiences with beef and dairy cattle, and hybrid corn genetic improvement programs, mouse

genetics, and genetic marker applications in breeding programs - 1988-2002

Private Veterinarian practice and Public Animal Health Control in Cattle National Breed

Association (Arouquesa) - Portugal - 1997-1999

State Veterinarian - Transkei, Republic of South Africa - 1984-1986

Authored or co-authored 21 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 1 key-note address, 3 book-chapters, 54

Conference papers, abstracts and posters, 31 non-peer-reviewed manuscripts, and 94 corporate

technical reports

Presented 161 oral contributions at Scientific Meetings and other professional gatherings

Was the Sole Lecturer of a full week’s Course/Workshop on Shrimp Genetic Improvement

prepared by and for the Iranian Fisheries Research Organization (IFRO), Bushehr, Iran, January

2013

Developed comprehensive long term Breeding Plans for an Iranian National Shrimp Breeding

and Genetics Program, as commissioned by the Iranian Fisheries Research Organization

(IFRO), Tehran and Bushehr, Iran, November 2015

Developed a Strategic Vision for Shrimp Breeding in China as commissioned by the Sun Yat-Sen

and Shanghai Universities of Guangzhou and Shanghai, China, July 2016