Exploring the genetics of feed efficiency and feeding behaviour traits in a pig line highly selected for performance characteristics.

ABSTRACT: The consideration of feed efficiency traits is highly relevant in animal breeding due to economic and ecologic impacts of the efficient usage and utilization of feed resources. In pigs, corresponding observations are recorded using automatic feeding stations and serve as one of the main criteria in most pig selection programmes. Simultaneously, feeding stations also generate feeding behaviour data which represent a nearly unused resource and provide a valuable proxy measure of health status, animal welfare, and management practices. In the current study, an integrated approach was applied to a feed efficiency tested and genome-wide genotyped terminal sire line population. Therefore, genetic analyses were performed combining a single-marker based approach and a Bayesian multi-marker algorit

SUBMITTER: Reyer H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5594041 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature