The world demand for animal-based food products is anticipated to increase by 70% by
2050. Meeting this demand in a way that has a minimal impact on the environment will …

Excellent reproductive performance in both males and females is fundamental to profitable
dairy and beef production systems. In this review we undertook a meta-analysis of genetic …

For several decades, breeding goals in dairy cattle focussed on increased milk production.
However, many functional traits have negative genetic correlations with milk yield, and …

The domestic dog serves as an excellent model to investigate the genetic basis of disease.
More than 400 heritable traits analogous to human diseases have been described in dogs …

Inbreeding, by virtue of its consequence on traits of interest, is a topic of major interest for
geneticists and animal breeders. Based on meta‐analysis conducted on 57 studies and …

Background Inbreeding reduces the fitness of individuals by increasing the frequency of
homozygous deleterious recessive alleles. Some insight into the genetic architecture of …

Genetic erosion is a major threat to biodiversity because it can reduce fitness and ultimately
contribute to the extinction of populations. Here, we explore the use of quantitative metrics to …

In dairy cattle, the widespread use of artificial insemination has resulted in increased
selection intensity, which has led to spectacular increase in productivity. However, cow …

Phenotypes from the August 2015 US national genetic evaluation were used to compute
phenotypic effects of 18 recessive haplotypes in Ayrshire (n= 1), Brown Swiss (n= 5) …

The HH1 haplotype on chromosome 5 is associated with a reduced conception rate and a
deficit of homozygotes at the population level in Holstein cattle. The source HH1 haplotype …