Considering the increasing challenges imposed by climate change and the need to improve
animal welfare, breeding more resilient animals capable of better co** with environmental …

ABSTRACTS Genome-wide association studies are a powerful tool to identify genomic
regions and variants associated with phenotypes. However, only limited mutual confirmation …

Intensive selection for improved productivity has been accompanied by an increase in
inbreeding rates and a reduction in genetic diversity. The increase in inbreeding tends to …

This study aimed to estimate genetic parameters for feeding behavior (FB) traits and to
assess their genetic relationship with performance traits in group-housed broilers. In total …

Sperm motility is directly related to the ability of sperm to move through the female
reproductive tract to reach the ovum. Sperm motility is a complex trait that is influenced by …

In dairy cattle production, it is important to understand how inbreeding affects production,
fertility, and health traits. However, there is still limited use of genomic information to …

Detection of coding/functional SNPs that change the biological function of a gene may lead
to identification of putative causative alleles within QTL regions and discovery of genetic …

Pedigree information is often missing for some animals in a breeding program. Unknown-
parent groups (UPGs) are assigned to the missing parents to avoid biased genetic …

Properly quantifying environmental heat stress (HS) is still a major challenge in livestock
breeding programs, especially as adverse climatic events become more common. The …

The goal of this study was to compare the predictive performance of artificial neural networks
(ANNs) with Bayesian ridge regression, Bayesian Lasso, Bayes A, Bayes B and Bayes Cπ in …