Development of Techniques and Breeding Strategies for Pig Strain Improvement in Japan

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly
ISSN 00213551
NII recode ID (NCID) AA0068709X
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Distributed over many farms, more than 40 pig strains have been developed since the early 1980s. Although until recently, only the selection index method had been used for pig strain development, it is being replaced by the BLUP method, supplemented with molecular genetic information. Here, these techniques and challenges for the future are described.

Date of issued
Creator Taro OBATA Masahiro SATOH Hitoshi MIKAMI
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NII resource type vocabulary Journal Article
Volume 28
Issue 4
spage 253
epage 261
Language eng

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