Article
Symposium review: Single-step genomic evaluations in dairy cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2020
Mäntysaari E A, Koivula M, Strandén I
Abstract excerpt
During the last decade, genomic selection has revolutionized dairy cattle breeding. For example, Nordic dairy cows (Denmark, Finland, and Sweden) born in 2018 were >90% sired by young genomically tested bulls. Thus, the average age of sires for Red Dairy Cattle cows born in 2018 was only 3.1 yr, whereas in 2011 it was 5.7 yr. Earlier the key driver of genetic progress was the selection of progeny-tested sires,...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Dairying
- Female
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Male
