Session 18. Practical implementation of marker-assisted selection in pig and poultry breeding

Date: 25 August ‘09; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Knap (DE)

 

Theatre Session 18

• Marker-assisted selection in PIC
  Knap, P.W.

• The use of a parentally imprinted QTN in differential selection of sire and dam lines
  Buys, N., Stinckens, A., Mathur, P., Janssens, S., Spincemaille, G., Decuypere, E. and Georges, M.

• Increasing genetic E. coli F18 resistance in Swiss pigs
  Luther, H., Vögeli, P. and Hofer, A.

• Effect of selection for E. coli Fab/ac resistance in pigs
  Nielsen, B., Jørgensen, C.B., Vernersen, A. and Fredholm, M.

• Marker- and gene-assisted selection and causes for the rapid proliferation of the immotile short tail sperm defect within the Finnish Yorkshire pig population
  Sironen, A., Uimari, P., Serenius, T. and Vilkki, J.

• Implementation of a marker-assisted selection program in the Chinese-European Duochan pig population
  Schwob, S., Riquet, J., Bellec, T., Kernaleguen, L., Tribout, T. and Bidanel, J.P.

• Opportunities and limitations in the use of MAS for a commercial pig genetics company
  Walling, G.A.

• The potential of genomic selection to improve litter size in pig breeding programmes
  Simianer, H.

• Genomic prediction for backfat in pigs
  Janss, L.L.G., Nielsen, B., Christensen, O.F., Bendixen, C., Sørensen, K.K. and Lund, M.S.

• Implementation of genome wide marker assisted selection, size of reference population
  Huisman, A.E., Vereijken, A., Van Haandel, B. and Albers, G.

• Genomics in broiler breeding: the cost of doing business?
  Avendano, S., Watson, K. and Kranis, A.

 

Poster Session 18

• Markers on pig chromosome five for arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), a recessively inherited disease
  Haubitz, M., Genini, S., Bucher, B., Wettstein, H.-R., Neuenschwander, S. and Vögeli, P.

• Effects of porcine LEPR and MCR genes on productive and meat and fat quality traits in a Duroc x Iberian commercial cross
  Muñoz, G., Alcazar, E., Fernández, A., Barragán, C., Carrasco, A., De Pedro, E., Silió, L., Sánchez, J.L. and Rodriguez, M.C.