Design and phenotyping procedures for recording wool, skin, parasite resistance, growth, carcass yield and quality traits of the SheepGENOMICS mapping flock

Animal Production Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 157-171

  White, Jason D ^a   Allingham, Peter G ^b   Gorman, Chris M ^a   Emery, David L ^c   Hynd, Philip ^d   Owens, John ^e   Bell, Amy ^b   Siddell, Jason ^g,h   Harper, Greg ^b   Hayes, Ben J ^f   Daetwyler, Hans D ^f   Usmar, Jonathan ^c   Goddard, Mike E ^a,f   Henshall, John M ^b   Dominik, Sonja ^b   Brewer, Heather ^b   Van Der Werf, Julius H J ^f   Nicholas, Frank W ^c   Warner, Robyn ^f   Hofmyer, Chris ^f   Longhurst, Terry ^h   Fisher, Troy ⁱ   Swan, Paul ^i,j   Forage, Rob ^h,i,k   Oddy, V Hutton ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e Future Livestock   (Australia)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^h Meat and Livestock Australia   (Australia)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN WOOL INNOVATION LIMITED   (Australia)

^j Australian Wool Innovation Ltd ^*  (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

commercial traits; QTL screen; sheep phenotypes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENETIC MARKER; GENOMICS; GROWTH RATE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; SHEEP; SKIN; WOOL;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84863405992     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN11085     Document Type: Article

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