The human population is growing, and as a result we need to produce more food whilst
reducing the impact of farming on the environment. Selective breeding and genomic selection …

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reports that by the year
2050 the global human population is likely to reach 9.7 billion, rising to 11.2 billion by 2100 (…

For 10,000 years pigs and humans have shared a close and complex relationship. From
domestication to modern breeding practices, humans have shaped the genomes of domestic …

Most traits and disorders have a multifactorial background indicating that they are controlled
by environmental factors as well as an unknown number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) 1 , 2 …

Background The dissection of complex traits of economic importance to the pig industry
requires the availability of a significant number of genetic markers, such as single nucleotide …

The completion of a reference genome sequence for humans took more than 200 scientists
more than a decade in a project that cost almost $3 billion to complete (International Human …

Domestication of wild boar (Sus scrofa) and subsequent selection have resulted in dramatic
phenotypic changes in domestic pigs for a number of traits, including behavior, body …

Sheep (Ovis aries) are a major source of meat, milk, and fiber in the form of wool and represent
a distinct class of animals that have a specialized digestive organ, the rumen, that carries …

A linkage map of the porcine genome has been developed by segregation analysis of 239
genetic markers. Eighty-one of these markers correspond to known genes. Linkage groups …

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is a panzootic infectious disease
of pigs, causing major economic losses to the world-wide pig industry. PRRS manifests …