Article
Heritability and genetic correlations of plasma metabolites of pigs with production, resilience and carcass traits under natural polymicrobial disease challenge.
Scientific reports - 19 Oct 2021
Dervishi E, Yang T, Dyck M K, Harding J C S, Fortin F, Cheng J, Dekkers J C M, Plastow G
Abstract excerpt
Metabolites in plasma of healthy nursery pigs were quantified using nuclear magnetic resonance. Heritabilities of metabolite concentration were estimated along with their phenotypic and genetic correlations with performance, resilience, and carcass traits in growing pigs exposed to a natural polymicrobial disease challenge. Variance components were estimated by GBLUP. Heritability estimates were low to moderate...
Topics
- Animal Husbandry
- Animals
- Bacterial Infections
- Body Composition
- Eating
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Meat
- Metabolome
- Phenotype
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable
