Identification and Use of Genetic Markers Influencing Animal Economic Traits
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Reproduction".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 282
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physiology; reproduction; animal welfare; ruminants; animal production; genetic markers
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Interests: livestock; genetic merit; genetic improvement; reproductive traits; animal production traits; genetic markers; genomic selection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the most important goals of the most recent research in animal production is to improve the knowledge regarding the genetic features related to animal productivity. Several animal economic traits can be influenced by genetic markers but there is still a lack of knowledge regarding this topic. Moreover, these traits, such as reproductive efficiency, milk production, milk quality, meat production, meat quality, and so on, are important and crucial in all the farmed species. For this reason, an improvement in animal production is the aim of stakeholders, who wish to raise animals able to give optimal productive performance. Consequently, it could be helpful in the farm-raised species to study the phenotypic correlation and identify genetic markers of productive traits of interest. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to provide and discuss recent evidence of the underlying genetic control on the improvement of productive traits.
We encourage you to share new information about the genetic factors that can have an effect on a range of productive traits in animals.
Dr. Sebastiano Luridiana
Dr. Maria Consuelo Mura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genetic markers
- production
- ruminants
- economic trait
- phenotypic correlation
