Selection Indices and Prediction of Genetic Merit in Animal Breeding

by Rondo Cameron and N. D. Cameron

This book describes the methodology for predicting the genetic merit of animals in the context of genetic improvement in an animal breeding program. Information on an animal and its relatives, on either the characteristic to be improved or from other traits, can be used to predict the animal's genetic merit, taking account of the relationships between measurements and the economic values of traits. The methodology is developed from first principles,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851991696
• ISBN13: 9780851991696
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 208 Pages