Application of Genomics Tools to Animal Breeding

The main goal in animal breeding is to select individuals that have high breeding values for traits of interest as parents to produce the next generation and to do so as quickly as possible. To date, most programs rely on statistical analysis of large data bases with phenotypes on breeding populatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dekkers, Jack C.M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Bentham Science Publishers 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382275/