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Balanced selection on purebred and crossbred performance increases gain in crossbreds

BACKGROUND: Genomic selection can be applied to select purebreds for crossbred performance (CP). The average performance of crossbreds can be considered as the summation of two components, i.e. the breed average (BA) of the parental breeds and heterosis (H) present in crossbreds. Selection of pure b...

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Autores principales: Esfandyari, Hadi, Berg, Peer, Sørensen, Anders Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29566647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-018-0379-9