Accuracy of genomic selection depends on the accuracy of prediction of single nucleotide
polymorphism effects and the proportion of genetic variance explained by markers. Design …

The application of quantitative genetics in plant and animal breeding has largely focused on
additive models, which may also capture dominance and epistatic effects. Partitioning …

“Omics” is the application of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in
biological research. Over the years, tremendous amounts of biological information has been …

Emphasizing increased profit through increased dairy cow production has revealed a
negative relationship of production with fitness and health traits. Decreased cow health can …

Feed represents a large proportion of the variable costs in dairy production systems. The
omission of feed intake measures explicitly from national dairy cow breeding objectives is …

Genomic selection increases accuracy and decreases generation interval, speeding up
genetic changes in the populations. However, intensive changes caused by selection can …

The reliability of genomic evaluations depends on the proportion of genetic variation
explained by the DNA markers. In this study, we have estimated the proportion of variance in …

Methane (CH4) is a product of enteric fermentation in ruminants, and it represents around
17% of global CH4 emissions. There has been substantial effort from the livestock scientific …

Information about genetic parameters is essential for selection decisions and genetic
evaluation. These estimates are population specific; however, there are few studies with …

Egg number (EN), egg laying rate (LR) and age at first egg (AFE) are important production
traits related to egg production in poultry industry. To better understand the knowledge of …