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A multiple-phenotype imputation procedure as a method for prediction of cheese-making efficiency in Spanish Assaf sheep.
Journal of animal science - 1 Dec 2020
Marina Héctor, Reverter Antonio, Gutiérrez-Gil Beatriz, Alexandre Pamela Almeida, Pelayo Rocío, Suárez-Vega Aroa, Esteban-Blanco Cristina, Arranz Juan José
Abstract excerpt
Sheep milk is mainly intended to manufacture a wide variety of high-quality cheeses. The ovine cheese industry would benefit from an improvement, through genetic selection, of traits related to the milk coagulation properties (MCPs) and cheese yield-related traits, broadly denoted as "cheese-making traits." Considering that routine measurements of these traits needed for genetic selection are expensive and...
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