Hybrid cultivars : Advantages & disadvantages
Reverse Breeding : Complications
Video recording about breeding and genetics
Genetische modificatie – introductie : Wat is genetische modificatie?
Selection for pure- and crossbred performance in Charolais
Two categories of beef production exist; i.e. (i) purebred animals from a beef sire and a beef dam and (ii) crossbred animals from a beef sire and a dairy dam. For the purebred beef production, there is a growing interest to include behavior and type traits in the breeding goal. Heritabilities for behavior traits, estimated using subjective data sc...
Genomic selection for improved crossbred performance
Lopes, M.S. (2016). Genomic selection for improved crossbred performance. PhD thesis, Wageningen University, the Netherlands With the implementation of genomic selection in pig breeding, the genetic progress in purebred populations is expected to increase up to 55% compared to traditional selection based on pedigree information. However, as most of...
Exploiting genomic information on purebred and crossbred pigs
Linkage disequilibrium and genomic selection in pigs
Securing a sufficiently large set of genotypes and phenotypes can be a limiting factor when implementing genomic selection. This limitation may be overcome by combining data from multiple populations or by using information of crossbred animals. The research described in this thesis characterized linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns in different pi...
An assessment of the European pig diversity using molecular markers: partitioning of diversity among breeds
Genetic diversity within and between breeds (and lines) of pigs was investigated. The sample comprised 68 European domestic breeds (and lines), including 29 local breeds, 18 varieties of major international breeds, namely Duroc, Hampshire, Landrace, Large White and Piétrain, and 21 commercial lines either purebred or synthetic, to which the Chinese...
Molecular characterisation of QTLs controlling fatness in pigs
This thesis deals with the identification of genes controlling intramuscular fat and backfat thickness. Markers linked to quantitative trait loci (QTL) for these traits in the cross between Meishan x Large White breeds will lead to the identification of the underlying genetic causes. A whole-genome scan revealed significant evidence for five QTLs a...
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