by Sandra J. Welsman
The Australian Sheep Genetics System paper surveyed the current and historical status of the various sheep selection systems that are available to wool producers. This is an extensive 57 page summary of what genetic selection systems are available to breeders. Anyone interested in learning about Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) will want to read this paper. The paper also speaks to across herd genetic improvement programs. The Table of Contents for the paper follows.
4 GENETICS SERVICES AND COMPATIBILITY
4.1 A range of genetics service providers
4.1.1 LAMBPLAN – Meat and Livestock Australia
a. Goals, markets and customers
b. Breeding – vision and results
c. Products, services, market response
4.1.2 Advanced Breeding Services – NSW Agriculture
a. Goals, breeding vision, products, markets
b. Industry Wether Trials – Bloodline comparisons
c. Merino Benchmark: across-stud
4.1.3 CSIRO – Select Breeding Services and databanks
4.1.4 Central Test Sire Evaluation - Merino
a. CTSE information and database
4.1.5 Other quantitative genetics service providers
a. Agriculture Western Australia
b. Natural Resources & Environment, Victoria
c. Mackinnon Project – University of Melbourne
d. SARDI
e. Independent consultants
4.1.6 Soft Rolling Skins and Elite Wool systems
a. Assessment: ‘elite wool’ methods in the marketplace
4.1.7 Professional sheep classers and stud advisors
4.1.8 Practical services – laboratories, scanners
4.2 Current services: methods and compatibility
4.2.1 Summary of sheep genetics data collections
4.2.2 Enterprises, pedigree, accuracy, links
4.2.3 Traits recorded, measurement and data integrity
4.2.4 Data collection, delivery, processing
4.2.5 Preparing BVs, indexes, comparisons, reports
Abbreviations and Glossary
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