the aim followed in this study was to use the multi and single trait analyses for a prediction of genomic and traditional breeding values and to make a comparison of the accuracies of these methods. a base population of 100 animals (50 males and 50 females) was randomly mated for 50 generations to create linkage disequilibrium among loci. the simulated genome size was 10 morgan, equally divided...

Current conservation mitigation plans often fail to ensure full in-kind habitat replacement for endangered species, which suggests the need for improved methods for calculating mitigation credits. A simple, yet biologically meaningful method for calculating mitigation credits would be to let the number of mitigation credits assigned to a parcel of land scale with the reproductive value of the i...

Studies on seasonally breeding wild birds of Indian sub-continent have been grossly neglected in terms of cyclic changes in total serum Ca, Pi and GSI with respect to natural photoperiod. Bank myna is one of the commonest wild seasonal breeder of Northern Indian plains. The bird breeds during April to July. With the advent of summer (in March) and increasing natural photoperiod a marked rise in...

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) seeks to involve farmers more closely in crop improvement in order to improve the impact of breeding efforts. While detailed discussions exist around appropriate methodologies for conducting PPB, little attention has been directed towards analysing breeding institutions. Such an analysis is necessary, both to understand the possible reasons for poor breeding i...

Genomic selection is a form of marker-assisted selection in which genetic markers covering the whole genome are used so that all quantitative trait loci (QTL) are in linkage disequilibrium with at least one marker. This approach has become feasible thanks to the large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) discovered by genome sequencing and new methods to efficiently genotype large nu...

OBJECTIVE Intramuscular fat is one of the meat quality traits that is considered in the selection strategies for Hanwoo (Korean cattle). Different methods are used to estimate the breeding value of selection candidates. In the present work we focused on accuracy of different genotype relationship matrices as described by forni and pedigree based relationship matrix. METHODS The data set inclu...