Reduction of inbreeding in commercial females by rotational mating with several sire lines

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 509-526

  Honda, Takeshi ^a   Nomura, Tetsuro ^b   Mukai, Fumio ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coancestry; Commercial females; Inbreeding; Rotational mating

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; SELECTIVE BREEDING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 4644270007     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2004014     Document Type: Article

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