Animal Board Invited Review: Meta-analysis of genetic parameters for resilience and efficiency traits in goats and sheep

Genetic selection focused purely on production traits has proven very successful in improving the productive performance of livestock. However, heightened environmental and infectious disease challenges have raised the need to also improve the resilience of animals to such external stressors, as wel...

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Main Authors: S. Mucha, F. Tortereau, A. Doeschl-Wilson, R. Rupp, J. Conington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-03-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731122000039