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Genetic and economic benefits of foreign sire contributions to a domestic sheep industry; including an Ireland-New Zealand case study

BACKGROUND: Importation of foreign genetics is a widely used genetic improvement strategy. However, even if the foreign genetic merit is currently greater than the domestic genetic merit, differences in foreign and domestic trends mean that the long-term competitiveness of an importation strategy ca...

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Autores principales: Fetherstone, Nicola, Hely, Fiona S., McHugh, Noirín, McGovern, Fiona M., Amer, Peter R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7789235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-020-00594-y