Evaluation of breeding strategies for polledness in dairy cattle using a newly developed simulation framework for quantitative and Mendelian traits

BACKGROUND: Intensified selection of polled individuals has recently gained importance in predominantly horned dairy cattle breeds as an alternative to routine dehorning. The status quo of the current polled breeding pool of genetically-closely related artificial insemination sires with lower breedi...

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Autores principales: Scheper, Carsten, Wensch-Dorendorf, Monika, Yin, Tong, Dressel, Holger, Swalve, Herrmann, König, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4926303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27357942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-016-0228-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4926303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27357942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-016-0228-7

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