Essays about: "Jenny Ahlqvist"

Found 2 essays containing the words Jenny Ahlqvist.

1. 1. International and national genetic evaluation of beef cattle : validation of national genetic evaluation models

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics

   Author : Jenny Ahlqvist; [2010]
   Keywords : beef; cattle; genetic; evaluation; international; models; Interbeef; charolais; limousin; data validation;

   Abstract : After a workshop in Kuopio held in June 2006, Interbull decided to go forward with the development of a system for beef international genetic evaluation and a three year project called Interbeef was launched in June 2007. The participating countries are so far limited to Europe and the only trait evaluated at present is adjusted weaning weight (weight at 200 days). READ MORE

3. 2. Possibilities to breed for internal parasite resistance in Swedish beef breeds

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics

   Author : Jenny Ahlqvist; [2008]
   Keywords : animal breeding; cattle; parasite resistance;

   Abstract : The aim of this review is to investigate the possibilities to breed for parasite resistance in the Swedish purebred beef population, with starting point in the organic production. The present population structure, breeding objectives and genetic evaluation will be discussed as well as four common internal parasites found among cattle in Sweden, registration of resistance by using faecal worm egg counts (FEC), the genetic background of FEC, and last the possibilities of using quantitative trait loci (QTL) and marker-assisted selection (MAS). READ MORE