Genetic benefits of genomic selection breeding programmes considering foreign sire contributions
Abstract Background In modern dairy breeding programmes, high contributions from foreign sires are nearly always present. Genotyping, and therefore genomic selection (GS), concern only a subpopulation of the breeding programme’s wider dairy population. These features of a breeding programme contribu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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BMC
2019-07-01
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Series: | Genetics Selection Evolution |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12711-019-0483-5 |