Assessing genotype-by-environment interaction in dairy cattle in case of a wide range of production environments, unstructured crossbreeding and no pedigree information.

Abstract excerpt

Genetic variation in environmental sensitivity (ES) among breeds underscores the importance of accounting for genotype-by-environment (G × E) interactions in breeding programmes. This is especially true for countries where there is a large variation in location production systems and environmental conditions and where farms use crossbreeding. We present a systematic framework for assessing G × E by combining...

Topics

• Animals
• Cattle
• Gene-Environment Interaction
• Female
• Genotype
• Breeding
• Ethiopia
• Dairying
• Pedigree
• Hybridization, Genetic
• Milk