Abstract

NUNEZ-TORRES, Oscar Patricio  and  ALMEIDA-SECAIRA, Roberto Ismael. Quantitative genetics: principles of farming in livestock production. J.Selva Andina Anim. Sci. [online]. 2022, vol.9, n.1, pp.23-36. ISSN 2311-3766.  https://doi.org/10.36610/j.jsaas.2022.090100023.

The objective of the research was to describe quantitative genetics and breeding principles in animals destined for livestock production. Economically important characteristics, such as body weight gain, egg, milk, and meat production rate are quantitative or metric typologies, traits with continuous variability. The action of addictive genes tends to originate a normal phenotypic distribution between the means of two progenitor populations, while multiplicative genes create geometric series governed by genes with multiplicative action. In addition, it should be considered that the most important factor in the creation of effective breeding techniques to optimize the genetic quality of animals is heritability, as they contain all types of gene action. In addition, parametric and non-parametric methods offer us a solution that becomes helpful or appealing to the questions that arise from the research and testing of hypotheses that are presented, we should also mention the models that explain the action of genes, such as breeding value and selection and production ability. Animal producers apply selection following several criteria in parallel as mating methods (panmixia, inbreeding, and heterosis). Finally, the application of breeding processes leads to a sensible selection by mating with special intentions without restrictions.

Keywords : Mating; phenotypes; genes; methods; heritability; traits; selection; variability.

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