Article
Reproductive technologies combine well with genomic selection in dairy breeding programs.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Feb 2016
Thomasen J R, Willam A, Egger-Danner C, Sørensen A C
Abstract excerpt
The objective of the present study was to examine whether genomic selection of females interacts with the use of reproductive technologies (RT) to increase annual monetary genetic gain (AMGG). This was tested using a factorial design with 3 factors: genomic selection of females (0 or 2,000 genotyped heifers per year), RT (0 or 50 donors selected at 14 mo of age for producing 10 offspring), and 2 reliabilities of...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Dairying
- Female
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Inbreeding
- Male
- Parturition
- Reproducibility of Results
- Reproductive Techniques
- Selection, Genetic
