Sentence examples for low breeding value from inspiring English sources

In addition, a number of sows from these nucleus herds were also culled due to low breeding value and poor conformation.

The non-improved family ("V-" for vigor -) was obtained by a controlled cross between a mother tree "3802" (with low breeding value) and 30 other males, again in a polycross design.

Significant allele frequency differences were found for ANXA9 (p = 0.02), in Holstein–Friesian animals with high and low breeding values for milk-fat yield.

In red deer, Cervus elaphus, selection favors males that carry low breeding values for female fitness resulting in the situation where males with relatively high fitness sired daughters with relatively low fitness (Foerster et al. 2007).

Two groups of 5 and 6 bucks with extreme high and low breeding values for LSCS (−1.38 ± 0.68 vs 1.17±0.48, respectively) were selected to sire daughters at the INRA experimental facility of Bourges (UE0332, OSMOY, France).

The top 3 stallions according to breeding values for PALP produced 14 32% units more progenies free from clinical PALP findings compared to the 3 stallions with lowest breeding values.

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.

This information was used to estimate breeding values and, then, 30 females and 10 males with the highest and lowest estimated breeding value for FP were selected as the founder animals of the HFP and LFP lines, respectively.

Breeding strategies in dairy cattle are similarly based on selection for low estimated breeding values (EBVs) for SCS [ 5].

Non-aggressive dogs were selected for low estimated breeding values for both human- and dog-directed aggression.

Genotypic information was available for 383 Holstein Friesian (HF) progeny-tested bulls, which were selected on the basis of either high or low estimated breeding values for the Australian selection index.