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Prediction of expected genetic variation within groups of offspring for innovative mating schemes

BACKGROUND: Experience from progeny-testing indicates that the mating of popular bull sires that have high estimated breeding values with excellent dams does not guarantee the production of offspring with superior breeding values. This is explained partly by differences in the standard deviation of...

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Autores principales: Segelke, Dierck, Reinhardt, Friedrich, Liu, Zengting, Thaller, Georg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24990472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-46-42