Metafounders: The future of swine genetic evaluation
The breeding objective of nucleus swine breeding programs is to improve performance of commercial crossbred pigs. However, what appear to be the same traits (e.g., growth rate) may be expressed differently at the commercial and nucleus herd levels and thus may not be genetically the same due to differences in management, production environment, etc.
10 February 2021
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