**Acknowledgements**

This work was financially supported by the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture, USA (Grant #@2009-210), and the Vietnam Education Foundation.

## **Author details**

Hua Thai Nhan1 \* and Harry Ako2

1 College of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Can Tho University, Can Tho City, Vietnam

2 Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: htnhan@ctu.edu.vn

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