Unfavorable genetic correlations between fecal egg count and milk production traits in the French blond-faced Manech dairy sheep breed.

Sophie AguerreJean-Michel AstrucAndrés LegarraLéa BordesFrançoise PrevotChristelle GrisezCorinne Vial NovellaFrancis FidellePhilippe JacquietCarole R Moreno

Published in: Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE (2022)

Our results indicate an unfavorable but low genetic relationship between resistance to gastrointestinal parasites and milk production traits in the blond-faced Manech breed. These results will help the breeders' association make decisions about how to include resistance to parasites in the selection objective.

Keyphrases

genome wide
dna methylation
plasmodium falciparum
copy number
peripheral blood
gene expression