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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-03-01
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Series: | Animal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731122000039 |