Why breed disease-resilient livestock, and how?

Abstract Background Fighting and controlling epidemic and endemic diseases represents a considerable cost to livestock production. Much research is dedicated to breeding disease resilient livestock, but this is not yet a common objective in practical breeding programs. In this paper, we investigate...

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Main Authors: Pieter W. Knap, Andrea Doeschl-Wilson
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Genetics Selection Evolution
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12711-020-00580-4