Mating animals by minimising the covariance between ancestral contributions generates less inbreeding without compromising genetic gain in breeding schemes with truncation selection

Animal

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1339-1346

  Henryon, M ^a,b   Sorensen A C ^a   Berg, P ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b Danish Pig Production   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Genetic contributions; Genetic gain; Inbreeding; Mating criteria; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70350565548     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731109004807     Document Type: Article

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