Background Feed accounts for about 70% of the total cost of poultry meat production.
Residual feed intake (RFI) has become the preferred measure of feed efficiency because it …

Due to high selection advances and shortened generation interval, genomic selection (GS)
is now an effective animal breeding scheme. In broilers, many studies have compared the …

The genomic prediction of unobserved genetic values or future phenotypes for complex
traits has revolutionized agriculture and human medicine. Fertility traits are undoubtedly …

Background Fertility is among the most important economic traits in dairy cattle. Genomic
prediction for cow fertility has received much attention in the last decade, while bull fertility …

Whole-genome sequence (WGS) data are increasingly being applied into genomic
predictions, offering a higher predictive ability by including causal mutations or single …

Quantitative traits are usually controlled by numerous genomic variants with small individual
effects, and variances associated with those traits are explained in a continuous manner …

Gao et al. propose several approaches to incorporate gene annotation into genomic
prediction and evaluate these new methods on populations..... Today, genomic prediction …

Whole‐genome regression methods are often used for estimating genomic heritability: the
proportion of phenotypic variance that can be explained by regression on marker genotypes …

Service sire has a major effect on reproductive success in dairy cattle. Recent studies have
reported accurate predictions for Holstein bull fertility using genomic data. The objective of …

Simple Summary Quantitative genetics theory postulates that genetic variance in closed
populations under directional selection can considerably decrease. As genetic variance …