Congruence between selection on breeding values and farmers’ selection criteria in sheep breeding under conventional nucleus breeding schemes

Selection from Animal Breeding

Diversifying Selection in Plant Breeding

Open access, freely available online " Some qualities nature carefully fi xes and transmits, but some, and those the fi ner, she exhales with the breath of the individual as too costly to perpetuate. But I notice also that they may become fi xed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last nature adopts them and bakes them into her porcelain " —...

Consequences of applying Optimum Contribution Selection on conventional and genomic based breeding schemes

Breeding and Genetics: Genomic Selection in Beef

314 Genomic divergence of indicine and taurine cattle identified through high-density SNP genotyping. L. R. Porto-Neto2, T. S. Sonstegard*1, G. Liu1, D. Bickhart3, C. Gondro6, M. V. da Silva4, Y. T. Utsunomiya5, J. F. Garcia5, and C. P. Van Tassell1, 1USDA, ARS, Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, 2University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia, 3USDA, ARS, Animal Im...

Selection on Expected Maximum Haploid Breeding Values Can Increase Genetic Gain in Recurrent Genomic Selection

Genomic selection (GS) offers the possibility to estimate the effects of genome-wide molecular markers, which can be used to calculate genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) for individuals without phenotypes. GEBVs can serve as a selection criterion in recurrent GS, maximizing single-cycle but not necessarily long-term genetic gain. As simple genome-wide sums, GEBVs do not take into account...