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Animal Board Invited Review: Meta-analysis of genetic parameters for resilience and efficiency traits in goats and sheep.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Mar 2022
Mucha S, Tortereau F, Doeschl-Wilson A, Rupp R, Conington J
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Genetic selection focused purely on production traits has proven very successful in improving the productive performance of livestock. However, heightened environmental and infectious disease challenges have raised the need to also improve the resilience of animals to such external stressors, as well as their efficiency in utilising available resources. A better understanding of the relationship between...
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