Genomics to benefit livestock production: improving animal health

Improving animal health and livestock productivity to reduce poverty.

This study is based on scientific publications, statistics and field observations. It shows the importance of livestock in the economy and in the risk management strategies implemented by poor farming households. A comparison of livestock performance trends with the evolution of rural poverty in developing countries indicates that growth in livestock production alone is not enough to reduce rur...

Functional genomics: tools for improving farm animal health and welfare.

The first genome sequence assemblies of farm animal species are now accessible through public domain databases, and further sequencing projects are in rapid progress. In addition, large collections of expressed sequences have been obtained, which will aid in constructing annotated transcript maps for many economically important species. Thus, the breeding of farm animals is entering the post-ge...

Applied to Livestock Production Genomics of heat stress in chickens

Global climate change, increasing human population and improved economic status in populous developing countries are causing an expansion of poultry production under hot ambient temperatures. High environmental temperatures have a negative impact on productivity and health in poultry. There is evidence for a substantial genetic component to the bird’s response to high temperature, including sin...

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Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production Statistical Problems in Livestock Population Genomics

Identifying signatures of recent or ongoing selection is of high relevance in livestock population genomics. From a statistical perspective, determining a proper testing procedure and combining various test statistics is challenging. Based on an extensive simulation study we discuss the statistical properties of eight different selection signature statistics. It is demonstrated, that a reasonab...