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Genetic and economic benefits of selection based on performance recording and genotyping in lower tiers of multi-tiered sheep breeding schemes.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 17 Jan 2017
Santos Bruno F S, van der Werf Julius H J, Gibson John P, Byrne Timothy J, Amer Peter R
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BACKGROUND: Performance recording and genotyping in the multiplier tier of multi-tiered sheep breeding schemes could potentially reduce the difference in the average genetic merit between nucleus and commercial flocks, and create additional economic benefits for the breeding structure. METHODS: The genetic change in a multiple-trait breeding objective was predicted for various selection strategies that included...
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