The impact of using different ancestral reference populations in assessing crossbred population admixture and influence on performance
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DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.910998
Abstract: Crossbreeding is a process in which animals from different breeds are mated together. The animals produced will exhibit a combination of both additive and non-additive genetic improvement from parental breeds that increase heterozygosity and negate… read more here.
Keywords: breed; reference; breed composition; vkr ... See more keywords
Animal Breed Composition Is Associated With the Hindgut Microbiota Structure and β-Lactam Resistance in the Multibreed Angus-Brahman Herd
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DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01846
Abstract: Antibiotics have been widely used in livestock to treat and prevent bacterial diseases. However, use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic resistant microorganisms (ARMs) in food animals. Due to the decreased efficacy… read more here.
Keywords: breed composition; microbiota structure; resistance; composition ... See more keywords