Is Continued Genetic Improvement of Livestock Sustainable?
Open Access
- 1 March 2016
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 202 (3), 877-881
- https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186650
Abstract
Large genetic improvements in the quantitative traits of growth, production, and efficiency of farmed livestock have been made over recent decades, and by introduction of genomic technology these are being enhanced. Such continued improvement requires that there be available variation to utilize. The evidence is that little variation has been lost and such rates are indeed sustainable in the future.Keywords
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