Article
Including genomic information in the genetic evaluation of production and reproduction traits in South African Merino sheep.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Jan 2024
Nel Cornelius, Gurman Phillip, Swan Andrew, van der Werf Julius, Snyman Margaretha, Dzama Kennedy, Olivier Willem, Scholtz Anna, Cloete Schalk
Abstract excerpt
Genomic selection (GS) has become common in sheep breeding programmes in Australia, New Zealand, France and Ireland but requires validation in South Africa (SA). This study aimed to compare the predictive ability, bias and dispersion of pedigree BLUP (ABLUP) and single-step genomic BLUP (ssGBLUP) for production and reproduction traits in South African Merinos. Animals in this study originated from five research...
Topics
- Sheep
- Animals
- Female
- South Africa
- Genome
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Phenotype
- Sheep, Domestic
- Reproduction
- Pedigree
- Models, Genetic