Article
Marker-assisted selection vis-à-vis bull fertility: coming full circle-a review.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Nov 2020
Raina Varinder Singh, Kour Aneet, Chakravarty Atish Kumar, Vohra Vikas
Abstract excerpt
Bull fertility is considered an indispensable trait, as far as farm economics is concerned since it is the successful conception in a cow that provides calf crop, along with the ensuing lactation. This ensures sustainability of a dairy farm. Traditionally, bull fertility did not receive much attention by the farm managers and breeding animals were solely evaluated based on phenotypic predictors, namely, sire...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Female
- Fertility
- Genotype
- Lactation
- Male
- Phenotype
- Selection, Genetic
