News by Wageningen Livestock Research
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Predicting the correlation between purebreds and crossbreds without data on crossbreds
- The genetic correlation between performance of purebreds and crossbreds is a key parameter in breeding programs that rely on crossbreeding, such as... -
Benefits of beef cattle international evaluation
- International evaluations allow breeders to compare animals’ genetic value across different countries. Researchers of Wageningen University... -
Seaweed as a methane inhibitor is not free of risks
- Cows exhale the strong greenhouse gas methane. One of the possible ways to limit methane emissions from cows is by feeding them the seaweed... -
Textbook Animal Breeding and Genetics available in 5 languages
- Animal Breeding and Genetics textbook is written for everyone who is interested in animal breeding and sustainable breeding programs and is available... -
Marieke Poppe and Lisanne Verschuren win presentation prizes at EAAP
- During the 71st Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), Marieke Poppe and Lisanne Verschuren of the Animal Breeding and... -
Two webinars on animal breeding: Inbreeding and DNA information
- Breeding programmes are essential to maintain and improve animal breeds, especially with smaller local breeds. The basic principles of breeding,... -
Boost for European aquaculture: launch of AQUAEXCEL3.0
- Eagerly awaited by the European aquaculture community familiar with the many benefits that the previous AQUAEXCEL projects provided, AQUAEXCEL3.0 has... -
Breed4Food Seminar 12 November 2020: Genomics Insight
- On Tuesday 12 November, around 85 participants joined this online meeting for all people who are involved in Breed4Food. -
Mirte Bosse discusses value of breeding programme research with king
- Wageningen University & Research researcher Mirte Bosse talked to King Willem-Alexander about the significance of scientific research in breeding... -
Broilers keep track of own activity
- Monitoring the activity of individual broilers can be challenging. Especially when the animals are housed in groups of thousands of birds. But it is...