Article
Accuracies of genomic prediction of feed efficiency traits using different prediction and validation methods in an experimental Nelore cattle population.
Journal of animal science - 1 Sept 2016
Silva R M O, Fragomeni B O, Lourenco D A L, Magalhães A F B, Irano N, Carvalheiro R, Canesin R C, Mercadante M E Z, Boligon A A, Baldi F S, Misztal I, Albuquerque L G
Abstract excerpt
Animal feeding is the most important economic component of beef production systems. Selection for feed efficiency has not been effective mainly due to difficult and high costs to obtain the phenotypes. The application of genomic selection using SNP can decrease the cost of animal evaluation as well as the generation interval. The objective of this study was to compare methods for genomic evaluation of feed...
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