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Towards genetic improvement of social behaviours in livestock using large-scale sensor data: data simulation and genetic analysis

BACKGROUND: Harmful social behaviours, such as injurious feather pecking in poultry and tail biting in swine, reduce animal welfare and production efficiency. While these behaviours are heritable, selective breeding is still limited due to a lack of individual phenotyping methods for large groups an...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zhuoshi, Doekes, Harmen, Bijma, Piter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37770844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-023-00840-z