Background Genetic selection based on direct indicators of heat stress could capture
additional mechanisms that are involved in heat stress response and enable more accurate …

Internal and external factors can change an individual's phenotype. A significant external
threat to humans and livestock is environmental heat load, a combination of high ambient …

Climate change has been linked to increasing temperatures and weather extremes. Certain
regions around the world become more susceptible to environmental hazards that limit pig …

Background Automatic and continuous recording of vaginal temperature (TV) using
wearable sensors causes minimal disruptions to animal behavior and can generate data …

Genetic improvement of livestock productivity has resulted in greater production of metabolic
heat and potentially greater susceptibility to heat stress. Various studies have demonstrated …

Background Non-additive genetic effects are often ignored in livestock genetic evaluations.
However, fitting them in the models could improve the accuracy of genomic breeding values …

Background Heat stress (HS) poses significant threats to the sustainability of livestock
production. Genetically improving heat tolerance could enhance animal welfare and …

Background Longitudinal records of automatically-recorded vaginal temperature (TV) could
be a key source of data for deriving novel indicators of climatic resilience (CR) for breeding …

We performed a plateau‐linear reaction norm model (RNM) analysis of number born alive
(NBA) in purebred Landrace pigs, where breeding value changes according to maximum …

Ausgangspunkt des Forschungsvorhabens war die Hypothese, dass aufgrund der
umweltbedingten Herausforderungen in westafrikanische Rinderrassen besondere …