| Summary: | The large yellow croaker Larimichthys crocea is one of the most important fish species in China. To estimate the reproductive success of breeders, three independent full-factorial crosses were created and the fins of breeders and progenies were sampled for microsatellite analysis. Out of 959 offspring from three sets, 99.6% were assigned to their parents using 6–7 microsatellite markers. In all crosses, some parent pairs produced a large number of offspring and some parent pairs did not produce any offspring. The contributions of male or female parents were unequal, ranging from 1.0–89.3% across the three sets. The loss of putative Ne was 69.6% in set 1, 31.2% in set 2 and 57.6% in set 3. These results suggest that the unequal contribution of parents is universal in artificial breeding of L. crocea, especially in a small population, and this should be taken into account in hatcheries or when releasing animals for resource enhancement [Current Zoology 58 (2): 244-249, 2012].
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