Sentence examples for breeding values to select from inspiring English sources

Genomic data are now used to infer either (1) whole-genome effects for the purpose of, e.g., estimation of breeding values to select superior breeding animals or for prediction of future phenotypes such as disease risks, or (2) effects of single genes or markers, to guide the development of human or veterinary drugs through improved knowledge on the biological basis of traits.

Several investigators have advocated the application of hip breeding values to breeding decisions including Ginja et al. [19] most recently.

The results of this study indicate that the repeatability coefficient of grain production in Jatropha is low (0.37), but comparable to other perennial species, and that to achieve reliabilities of 70 and 80% in the prediction of breeding values of selected families, 4 and 7 years of evaluation, respectively, are needed.

When focussing the editing resources on this smaller number of sires, there was no difference in response to selection or inbreeding whether the edited sires were those with the highest or lowest breeding values amongst the selected set.

Using breeding values, several prospective sires or dams would be ranked by hip breeding values [13] and then selected according to many other traits deemed important to a particular breeder.

We show here that accuracies of GEBV were approximately 1.3 times larger than accuracies of sire maternal-grandsire pathway breeding values, which are currently used to select bull calves to enter progeny testing.

In livestock breeding programs, genomic information is widely used to estimate genomic breeding values for selection candidates.

Association of candidate genes with QTL and subsequent marker development would enable molecular discrimination between plants harbouring alleles conferring differential WSC accumulation and hence be of value in breeding programmes to select high WSC plants.

Selection was done by truncation on genome-wide estimated breeding values and 100 individuals were selected as parents each generation, equally divided between both sexes.

Predicted breeding values (either PED or IBD-GS) were used to select 200 parents for the next generation.

Therefore, we need methods to estimate both variance components and breeding values in the residual variance part of the model to be able to select for animals having smaller environmental variances.