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Genome-wide association with residual body weight gain in Bos indicus cattle.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 18 May 2015
Santana M H A, Gomes R C, Utsunomiya Y T, Neves H H R, Novais F J, Bonin M N, Fukumasu H, Garcia J F, Alexandre P A, Oliveira Junior G A, Coutinho L L, Ferraz J B S
Abstract excerpt
Weight gain is a key performance trait for beef cat-tle; however, attention should be given to the production costs for better profitability. Therefore, a feed efficiency trait based on per-formance can be an interesting approach to improve performance without increasing food costs. To identify candidate genes and ge-nomic regions associated with residual body weight gain (RWG), we conducted a genome-wide...
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