Article
Genome-wide detection of non-additive quantitative trait loci for semen production traits in beef and dairy bulls.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Mar 2022
Nagai R, Kinukawa M, Watanabe T, Ogino A, Kurogi K, Adachi K, Satoh M, Uemoto Y
Abstract excerpt
Semen production traits are important aspects of bull fertility, because semen quantity leads to direct profits for artificial insemination centres, and semen quality is associated with the probability of achieving a pregnancy. Most genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for semen production traits have assumed that each quantitative trait locus (QTL) has an additive effect. However, GWASs that account for...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Male
- Phenotype
- Plant Breeding
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Semen
- Semen Analysis
- Sperm Motility
