It is currently estimated that humans and cattle separated over 90 million years ago. Given such a long time of separation, it is ...

New genetic evaluation models known as ‘single-step genomic evaluation models’ predict genetic merits of animals without bias even with ...

Novel use of whole genome sequence data
Whole genome sequence data provides information on the full DNA profile of an individual. This data ...

Monitoring activity levels of individual broilers while they are group-housed can be a challenge. However, information on individual levels ...

Current pig production systems challenge the pigs often more than once in their lives. Resilient pigs will be better able to cope with ...

Decisions in daily farm management practices may be optimized by predicting the performance (i.e. phenotype) of young individuals. ...