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Disentangling the dynamics of energy allocation to develop a proxy for robustness of fattening pigs.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 7 Nov 2023
Lenoir Guillaume, Flatres-Grall Loïc, Muñoz-Tamayo Rafael, David Ingrid, Friggens Nicolas C
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BACKGROUND: There is a growing need to improve robustness of fattening pigs, but this trait is difficult to phenotype. Our first objective was to develop a proxy for robustness of fattening pigs by modelling the longitudinal energy allocation coefficient to growth, with the resulting environmental variance of this allocation coefficient considered as a proxy for robustness. The second objective was to estimate...
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