EXPERT GENOMIC CONSULTANT JOINS OUR TEAM

March 2018 - Cromaris, the leading Croatian bass and bream producer, has chosen Scotland’s Xelect Ltd as their provider of genetic services. Xelect will provide a complete package of genetic management to the selective breeding program in support of Cromaris’ continued advances in product quality, welfare and sustainability.

Alicia Bertolotti has spent the last 3 months performing an internship placement at Xelect in St Andrews.

New Zealand King Salmon, the producers of the internationally renowned Ōra King breed have chosen Scotland’s Xelect Ltd as their provider of genetic breeding program management for the next 4 years, after an extensive worldwide search.

Xelect is delighted to announce a licence and genetic services agreement with Atlantic salmon producer Cermaq Canada, granting access to Xelect’s proprietary genetic marker technology for selecting fish with superior production traits.

Xelect limited and the EOS Technology Investment Syndicate are pleased to announce the completion of an equity investment round.

Xelect were proud winners of the Most Enterprising Start-up Company at the recent Fife Business awards, hosted by Fife Chamber of Commerce, to celebrate prospering local businesses.

We had a busy and productive visit to Trondheim, Norway, for AquaNor 2015, where we hosted a stand for the second time. There was a real sense of energy and exciting business opportunity across the aquaculture industry.

GenoMar, the world’s premier tilapia breeding company today announces a partnership with Xelect Ltd., a global leader in marker assisted selection to bring higher yielding tilapia to the market.

Aquaculture Industry Receives New Impulse from Horizon 2020 Programme

We now offer validated eDNA detection for the invasive carpet sea-squirt, Didemnum vexillum. This species poses threats to aquaculture and fragile marine habitats as it forms a rapid encrusting growth.

Xelect will be the industrial sponsor of an exciting PhD studentship in the research group of Dr Dan Macqueen at the University of Aberdeen.

We are very pleased to announce that we have expanded our range of broodstock selection markers for Atlantic salmon and have identified QTLs for muscle fibre number and pigment retention efficiency, ready for validation in commercial strains.

We have now added brown trout, Salmo trutta, to our range of genetic relatedness and parentage assignment services.

Xelect are providing assistance and training in the establishment of a new texture monitoring facility at Dawnfresh, a major UK processor and farmer of high quality rainbow trout.

We had a busy and productive couple of days at Aviemore. It was good to meet customers old and new!

February 2014 Scottish Enterprise have awarded Xelect Ltd a SMART: SCOTLAND grant to develop genetic tests for selecting broodstock Atlantic salmon with superior production traits for farming.

We are pleased to announce a new texture analysis service for salmon and trout.
Precise firmness and tensile (gaping) measurements available to farmers and processors.
Standard and same-day services available!

Xelect has been awarded funding from the Technology Strategy Board as part of its “Technology Inspired Feasibility Studies – Biosciences” scheme to develop “Automated image analysis of muscle phenotypes for genetic marker discovery in Atlantic salmon”. The project commences in August and will run for 4 months”.

We are pleased to announce that we are now offering a rapid and cost-effective flow cytometry service to determine triploidy in fish.

Salmobreed has licensed Xelect’s High Fillet Yield (HFY-1) markers for exclusive use in Europe. Fish selected using HFY-1 have up to 6% more recoverable flesh than unselected fish worth ~£600 per tonne at current market prices.