Enzootic Ltd.

Enzootic Ltd. is rated 3 out of 5 in the category biotechnology. Read and write reviews about Enzootic Ltd.. Founded in 2012, Enzootic is an animal biotechnology and genetics company, supporting the breeding and farming of all-female freshwater and marine shrimp. As is the case for most livestock species, farming mono-sex populations of shrimp offers tremendous enhancement in performance and economic value. In the absence of the dominant more aggressive males, all-female populations are particularly well suited to intensive farming—demonstrating outstandingly uniform growth, higher survival rates and superior feed conversion ratios. With these advantages in mind, Enzootic has developed a pioneering cell transplantation technology that is used for the commercial production of all-female shrimp populations, without the use of hormones, chemicals or genetic modifications. This novel technology – published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and protected by several patent applications – taps into the natural sex differentiation mechanism of crustaceans and harnesses their unique sexual plasticity to realize the goal of all-female culture.