Genomics to benefitlivestockproduction:improvinganimalhealth

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dc.contributor.authorPlastow, Graham Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T11:53:27Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T11:53:27Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-01
dc.descriptionThe primary principle underlying the application of genomics is that it has the most value for difficultand expensive to measure traits. These traits will differ between species and probably also between markets. Maintenance of health will be one of the biggest challenges for efficient livestock production in the next few decades. This challenge will onlyincrease in the face of demand for animal protein, resistance to existing drugs, and the pressure to reduce the use of antibiotics in agriculture. There is probably genetic variation in susceptibility for all diseases but little has been done to make use of this variation to date. In part this is because it is very difficult as well as expensive to measure this variation. This suggests thatgenomics should provide one of the ways of tackling the challenge of improving animal health. This paper will discuss the concepts of resistance, variation in susceptibility, and resilience; provide examples and present some recent results in cattle and pigs; and briefly discuss the application of gene editing in relation to disease resistance.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-sh97-gn23
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isversionofGraham Stuart Plastow. (2016). Genomics to benefit livestock production: improving animal health. Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 45(6), 349–354. https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1590/S1806-92902016000600010
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectAnimal breeding
dc.subjectDisease
dc.subjectGenome analysis
dc.subjectResilience
dc.titleGenomics to benefitlivestockproduction:improvinganimalhealth
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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