Genomics of Heat Tolerance in Reproductive Performance Investigated in Four Independent Maternal Lines of Pigs

Improving swine climatic resilience through genomic selection has the potential to minimize welfare issues and increase the industry profitability. The main objective of this study was to investigate the genetic and genomic determinism of tolerance to heat stress in four independent purebred populat...

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Main Authors: Francesco Tiezzi, Luiz F. Brito, Jeremy Howard, Yi Jian Huang, Kent Gray, Clint Schwab, Justin Fix, Christian Maltecca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2020.00629/full