Estimation of genetic parameters and breeding values across challenged environments to select for robust pigs

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1494-1502

  Herrero Medrano, J M ^a   Mathur, P K ^a   Ten Napel, J ^b   Rashidi, H ^b   Alexandri, P ^a   Knol, E F ^a   Mulder, H A ^b  

^a TOPIGS Research Center IPG   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disease; Genetic selection; Legendre polynomials; Pig; Random regression; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SUS SCROFA; SWINE;

EID: 84978405302     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: 15253163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2014-8583     Document Type: Article

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