Genomic mating as sustainable breeding for Chinese indigenous Ningxiang pigs.

An important economic reason for the loss of local breeds is that they tend to be less productive, and hence having less market value than commercial breeds. Nevertheless, local breeds often have irreplaceable values, genetically and sociologically. In the breeding programs with local breeds, it is...

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Main Authors: Jun He, Xiao-Lin Wu, Qinghua Zeng, Hao Li, Haiming Ma, Juan Jiang, Guilherme J M Rosa, Daniel Gianola, Richard G Tait, Stewart Bauck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236629