Improving genomic selection for heat tolerance in dairy cattle: current opportunities and future directions

EK Cheruiyot, M Haile-Mariam, BG Cocks… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Heat tolerance is the ability of an animal to maintain production and reproduction levels
under hot and humid conditions and is now a trait of economic relevance in dairy systems …

[HTML][HTML] Animal board invited review: Quantification of resilience in farm animals

M Taghipoor, M Pastell, O Martin, HN Ba, J van Milgen… - animal, 2023 - Elsevier
Resilience, when defined as the capacity of an animal to respond to short-term
environmental challenges and to return to the prechallenge status, is a dynamic and …

Body weight deviations as indicator for resilience in layer chickens

TVL Berghof, H Bovenhuis, HA Mulder - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Resilience is the capacity of an animal to be minimally affected by disturbances or to rapidly
return to the state pertained before exposure to a disturbance. Less resilient animals are …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic-based genetic parameters for resilience across lactations in North American Holstein cattle based on variability in daily milk yield records

SY Chen, JP Boerman, LS Gloria, VB Pedrosa… - Journal of Dairy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the increasing challenges imposed by climate change and the need to improve
animal welfare, breeding more resilient animals capable of better coping with environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the genomic background of resilience based on variability in milk yield and milk production levels in North American Holstein cattle through …

SY Chen, LS Gloria, VB Pedrosa, J Doucette… - Journal of Dairy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Breeding more resilient animals will benefit the dairy cattle industry in the long term,
especially as global climate changes become more severe. Previous studies have reported …

A promising resilience parameter for breeding: the use of weight and feed trajectories in growing pigs

W Gorssen, C Winters, R Meyermans… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Springer
Background Increasing resilience is a priority in modern pig breeding. Recent research
shows that general resilience can be quantified via variability in longitudinal data. The …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of resilience indicators by estimating genetic correlations among daughter groups and with yield responses to a heat wave and disturbances at …

M Poppe, HA Mulder, RF Veerkamp - Journal of Dairy Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Resilient cows are minimally affected in their functioning by disturbances, and if affected,
they quickly recover. Previously, the variance and autocorrelation of daily deviations from a …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic analysis of resilience indicators based on milk yield records in different lactations and at different lactation stages

M Poppe, G Bonekamp, ML Van Pelt, HA Mulder - Journal of Dairy Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Resilience is the ability of cows to cope with disturbances, such as pathogens or heat
waves. To breed for improved resilience, it is important to know whether resilience …

The future of phenomics in dairy cattle breeding

JB Cole, SAE Eaglen, C Maltecca, HA Mulder… - Animal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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Resilience: reference measures based on longer-term consequences are needed to unlock the potential of precision livestock farming technologies for quantifying this …

NC Friggens, I Adriaens, R Boré… - Peer Community …, 2022 - peercommunityjournal.org
Climate change, with its increasing frequency of environmental disturbances puts pressures
on the livestock sector. To deal with these pressures, more complex traits such as resilience …