New breeding goals and role of genomics on adaptation and resilience traits in French dairy sheep

Archive ouverte | Astruc, Jean-Michel | CCSD

International audience. For several decades, the breeding organizations ruling the French dairy sheep breeds have developed efficient breeding programs aiming at improving the local breeds in their production area a...

Optimal mating strategies to manage a heterozygous advantage major gene in sheep

Archive ouverte | Raoul, Jérôme | CCSD

International audience. Some mutations (or 'major genes') have a desirable effect in heterozygous carriers but an undesirable effect in homozygous carriers. When these mutations affect a trait of significant economi...

Intégration d’une puce basse densité en sélection génomique ovine laitière

Archive ouverte | Larroque, Helene | CCSD