Social interactions between individuals living in a group can have both positive and
negative effects on welfare, productivity, and health of these individuals. Negative effects of …

Simple Summary Successful breeding of entire male pigs needs a better understanding of
factors driving meat quality and behavior traits as entire male pigs have lower meat quality …

Assessing the impact of the social environment on health and disease is challenging. As
social effects are in part determined by the genetic makeup of social partners, they can be …

The evolutionary potential of traits is governed by the amount of heritable variation available
to selection. While this is typically quantified based on genetic variation in a focal individual …

Performance and feeding behaviour traits in growing pigs could be affected by social
interaction effects when animals are raised in group. So, properly knowing the genetic …

Pigs are housed in groups during the test period. Social effects between pen mates may
affect average daily gain (ADG), backfat thickness (BF), feed conversion rate (FCR), and the …

Characterization of genetic variants affecting genome-wide gene expression levels
(expression quantitative trait loci or eQTLs) in pig testes may improve our understanding of …

Biological information regarding markers and gene association may be used to attribute
different weights for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in genome‐wide selection …

Selection for indirect genetic effects (IGE), ie the genetic effect of an individual on a trait of
another individual, is a promising avenue to increase trait values in plant and animal …

This paper presents the results of a research program that was aimed at evaluating:(1)
sensory evaluation of meat from entire male pigs,(2) preventive measures to reduce boar …