Bovine and buffalo are important livestock species that have contributed to human lives for
more than 1000 years. Improving fertility is very important to reduce the cost of production. In …

Simple Summary Cow–calf production is the foundation of the US beef industry. However,
infertility and sub-fertility limit its sustainability. In this review, we discuss the progress made …

Background Genetic progress for fertility and reproduction traits in dairy cattle has been
limited due to the low heritability of most indicator traits. Moreover, most of the quantitative …

Background Heterosis has been suggested to be caused by dominance effects. We
performed a joint genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) using data from multi-breed …

Female fertility in Holstein cattle can decline when intense genetic selection is placed on
milk production. One approach to improving fertility is to identify the genomic regions and …

This study aimed at assessing inbreeding and its effect on growth and fertility traits using the
longtime closed line 1 Hereford cattle population. Inbreeding was estimated based on …

Simple Summary Inbreeding depression is the decreased fitness of offspring of closely
related individuals. It is a common problem in the livestock industry as a consequence of …

Canada's interest in agricultural lands has changed with time from a desire of crop yields at
Confederation through to discussions in the Senate on adaptation and resilience in 2018 …

Data from a total of 4842 animals were used to test whether the regular dry matter intake
(DMI) data collection and residual feed intake (RFI) estimation period could be decreased …

Background In beef cattle, more than 50% of the energy input to produce a unit of beef is
consumed by the female that produced the calf. Development of genomic tools to identify …