Sentence examples for breeding value from inspiring English sources

Holloway and colleagues have extensively examined the social construction of genetics and breeding value in the context of beef cattle.

The overall breeding value of each animal was the sum of a 'residual polygenic breeding value' and a 'QTL breeding value'.

Additionally, health data was integrated into breeding value estimations.

Effects are expressed in standard deviation units of breeding value.

We refer to these models as breeding value models (BVM).

The reason is that the breeding value of an individual can be considered as a combination of the breeding value of its parents and a Mendelian sampling term.

Genomic selection involves breeding value estimation of selection candidates based on high-density SNP genotypes.

There was no correlation between haplotype and average estimated FEC breeding value.

Most significant uses are estimation of breeding value of genotypes and marker-assisted selection studies (4).

The expected mean breeding value of a potential offspring was calculated as: mBV = MGBV s + MGBV d, where mBV is the expected breeding value of an offspring based on the parental average estimated breeding values, MGBVs is the estimated mean gamete breeding value of the sire, and MGBVd is the estimated mean gamete breeding value of the dam.

Breeding values for the cows were simulated by adding half the breeding value of the sire, half the breeding value of the dam and a Mendelian sampling term.