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Suitability of traits related to aggression and handleability for integration into pig breeding programmes: Genetic parameters and comparison between Gaussian and binary trait specifications

Changes in husbandry systems as well as consumers’ increasing demands for animal welfare lead to increasing importance of traits such as handleability and aggressiveness in pigs. However, before using such novel traits for selection decisions, information on genetic parameters for these traits for t...

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Autores principales: König von Borstel, Uta, Tönepöhl, Björn, Appel, Anne K., Voß, Barbara, Brandt, Horst, Naderi, Saeid, Gauly, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6310294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30592711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204211