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Predicting heterosis for egg production traits in crossbred offspring of individual White Leghorn sires using genome-wide SNP data.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 3 Apr 2015
Amuzu-Aweh Esinam N, Bovenhuis Henk, de Koning Dirk-Jan, Bijma Piter
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BACKGROUND: The development of a reliable method to predict heterosis would greatly improve the efficiency of commercial crossbreeding schemes. Extending heterosis prediction from the line level to the individual sire level would take advantage of variation between sires from the same pure line, and further increase the use of heterosis in crossbreeding schemes. We aimed at deriving the theoretical expectation...
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