期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) is one of the major causes of human foodborne intoxication resulting from consumption of contaminated poultry p......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Resilient animals are minimally affected by disturbances, such as diseases and heat stress, and quickly recover. Daily activity data can po......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Empirically assessing the impact of preselection on genetic evaluation of preselected animals requires comparing scenarios that take differ......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background At the beginning of genomic selection, some Chinese companies genotyped pigs with different single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays. Th......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background The domestication of goat (Capra hircus) started 11,000 years ago in the fertile crescent. Breed formation in the nineteenth century, estab......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background In animal genetics, linear mixed models are used to deal with genetic and environmental effects. The variance and covariance terms of these......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Feed efficiency during lactation involves a set of phenotypic traits that form a complex system, with some traits exerting causal effects o......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background: Colostral concentration of immunoglobulins (Ig) is crucial for the passive transfer of antibodies from the cow to the new-born calf. Direc......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Deleterious recessive conditions have been primarily studied in the context of Mendelian diseases. Recently, several deleterious recessive ......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is commonly measured based on the squared coefficient of correlation (r(2)) between the alleles at two loci th......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background: Single-step genomic predictions obtained from a breeding value model require calculating the inverse of the genomic relationship matrix (G......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Next-generation sequencing is a promising approach for the detection of causal variants within previously identified quantitative trait loci. Because ......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Single-step genomic best linear unbiased prediction (ssGBLUP) allows the inclusion of information from genotyped and ungenotyped individual......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background Meat quality and composition traits have become valuable in modern pork production; however, genetic improvement has been slow due to high ......
期刊: GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION, 2022; 54 (1)
Background If not accounted for, genotype x environment (GxE) interactions can decrease the accuracy of genetic evaluations and the efficiency of bree......