Genetic Diversity Assessment and Marker-Assisted Selection in Ruminants Livestock
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2022) | Viewed by 2760
Special Issue Editor
Interests: genomic selection; molecular breeding; population genomics; functional genetics; economic traits; genomic diversity; genome-wide association analysis; transcriptome analysis; integrated genomic analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are more than 1500 breeds of ruminants worldwide, representing a huge amount of phenotype diversity in growth, fertility, and the production of meat, milk, and wools. This provided us with ideal animal models to assess the genetic diversity and identify the functional genes or genetic markers correlated with these traits of economic value. Theoretical and simulation studies show that the advantage of using marker-assisted selection can be substantial, particularly when marker information is used, because normal selection is less effective, for example, for sex-limited or carcass traits. Emerging genomic technologies could allow large numbers of polymorphic sites to be identified. This type of approach, combined with cheap and high density markers, could largely facilitate the breeding process in ruminants livestock. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to report on recent studies in genetic/genomic diversity assessment, functional genes/markers identification and marker-assisted selection in ruminant livestock, including cow, cattle, yak, buffalo, sheep, goat, camel and so on.
Dr. Lin Jiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ruminant breeding
- genetic/genomic diversity
- functional genes/markers identification
- marker-assisted selection (MAS)
- genomic selection (GS)
