Advances in Pig Genetic and Genomic Breeding of 2024
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 603
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pig genetics
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Interests: animal pan-genome; animal genetics; gene mapping; trait dissection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to its great application value, the selective breeding of pigs has been carried out since the beginning of the 20th century by identifying the genetic foundations for economic traits. The completion of multiple pig genome projects has constructed a comprehensive list of pig genes. Moreover, a large number of genes and loci have been discovered in pigs. However, years of extensive research have demonstrated that not many major genes or loci can be used for breeding. The genetic mechanisms and genomics of pigs are still the main focus.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims to focus on the genetic mechanisms of economic traits, such as reproductive performance, growth rate, intestinal digestibility (feed to meat ratio), meat-producing performance, meat quality, disease resistance, and others among different porcine varieties or strains. Moreover, we aim to analyze the genetic mechanisms and molecular regulatory networks of pig economic traits at the DNA, RNA, proteins, and chromatin levels using multiple methods, such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, monocytomics, and multi-omics joint analysis.
In addition, mining new candidate genes and detecting genetic loci for economic traits will also be considered. Meanwhile, the role and contribution of genes and molecular makers for the formation of economic traits will be discussed.
Finally, the application of genes and loci in marker-assisted selection and the genome-wide selection of pigs will be of great concern to this Special Issue.
Dr. Kang Xu
Dr. Kejun Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pig genome
- pig breeding
- multi-omics
- economic traits
- molecular maker
