Economic weights of maternal and direct traits of pigs calculated by applying gene flow methods

WOLFOVÁ, Marie, KRUPA, Emil, KRUPOVÁ, Zuzana and ŽÁKOVÁ, Eliška. Economic weights of maternal and direct traits of pigs calculated by applying gene flow methods. Animal, 2019, 13, 1127-1136. ISSN 1751-7311.
Year2019
CathegoryScientific publication in impacted journals
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Abstract

Multiple trait selection indexes in pig breeding programmes should take into account the population structure and time delay between parent selection and expressions of traits in all production levels next to the trait impacts on economic efficiency of production systems. Gene flow procedures could be used for the correct evaluation of maternal and direct traits of pig breeds involved in breeding or crossbreeding systems. Therefore, the aim of this study was to expand a previously developed bioeconomic model and computer program to calculate the marginal economic values by including a gene flow procedure. Results indicated that this method could be foregone when estimating the relative economic weights of traits in pig crossbreeding systems applying artificial insemination at all production levels.