Dairy cattle breeding has historically focused on relatively small numbers of elite bulls as
sires of sons. In recent years, even if generation intervals were reduced and more diverse …

Blanco Orejinegro (BON) cattle have 500 years of adaptation to the Colombian tropic, but
little is known about their genetic history. Our aim was to estimate levels of linkage …

Objective Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are contiguous lengths of homozygous genotypes
that can reveal inbreeding levels, selection pressure, and mating schemes. In this study …

Background Several core breeding and supporting lines of the Qingyuan partridge chicken,
a representative local chicken breed in China, have been developed over 20 years …

Thirty-five years of pedigree data has been studied to investigate the role of the Herd Book
in maintaining the genetic diversity and control the inbreeding while applying a selection …

The animals which are mated/bred with closely related animals as compared to an average
random mating population which means that these animals are mated with animals having …

The effects of different types and levels of errors in sire pedigree on genetic variance,
heritability, inbreeding coefficient, estimated breeding value, the accuracy of breeding value …

2Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Faculty of Animal Science, University of
Agriculture in Krakow, Al. Mickiewicza 24/28, 31-059 Kraków, Poland♦ Corresponding …

In-silico predictions to project the response to selection in livestock breeding programmes
are done to estimate the possible genetic and economic gains. In these predictions, genetic …