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Genetic analysis of disease resilience of wean-to-finish pigs under a natural disease challenge model using reaction norms.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 8 Feb 2022
Cheng Jian, Lim KyuSang, Putz Austin M, Wolc Anna, Harding John C S, Dyck Michael K, Fortin Frederic, Plastow Graham S, Dekkers Jack C M
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BACKGROUND: Disease resilience is the ability to maintain performance across environments with different disease challenge loads (CL). A reaction norm describes the phenotypes that a genotype can produce across a range of environments and can be implemented using random regression models. The objectives of this study were to: (1) develop measures of CL using growth rate and clinical disease data recorded under a...
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