Adapting the feed, the animal and the feeding techniques to improve the efficiency and sustainability of monogastric livestock production systems

Adapting the feed, the animal and the feeding techniques to improve the efficiency and sustainability of monogastric livestock production systems

Two new Feed-a-Gene peer-reviewed articles

Tue, 2017-09-26 14:14

Feed-a-Gene researchers have published 2 peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Animal Science that deal with genetic parameter estimations and contribute to the progress of WP5 Use of traits in animal selection. These articles are in Open Access and can be downloaded by clicking on their title below:

January 2017: How to improve breeding value prediction for feed conversion ratio in the case of incomplete longitudinal body weights by Tran-Huynh V. H., Gilbert H. and David I. (INRA)
August 2017: The purebred-crossbred correlation in pigs: a review of theory, estimates and implications by Wientjes Y. and Calus M. (Wageningen University and Research)