Article
Maximizing genetic response in breeding schemes of dairy cattle with constraints on variance of response.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jul 1994
Meuwissen T H, Woolliams J A
Abstract excerpt
Predicted genetic progress in dairy cattle breeding schemes was maximized with the variances of selection responses constrained, i.e., restricted effective population sizes. This restriction would also lead to schemes with acceptable rates of inbreeding (< .5%/yr). If the required coefficient of variation of the annual selection response was reduced from .32 to .16, numbers of animals selected, openness of...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Male
- Selection, Genetic
- Statistics as Topic