AIMC Topic: Breeding

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Application of neural networks with back-propagation to genome-enabled prediction of complex traits in Holstein-Friesian and German Fleckvieh cattle.

Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE
BACKGROUND: Recently, artificial neural networks (ANN) have been proposed as promising machines for marker-based genomic predictions of complex traits in animal and plant breeding. ANN are universal approximators of complex functions, that can captur...

Comprehensive duck DNA fingerprinting based on machine learning for breed identification.

Poultry science
Duck is one of the most widely distributed waterfowl in the world, with more than 6 billion of them farmed annually in the world, and has great economic and ecological value. Amidst mounting global prioritization of duck genetic resource exploration ...

Deep learning and genomic best linear unbiased prediction integration: An approach to identify potential nonlinear genetic relationships between traits.

Journal of dairy science
Genomic prediction (GP) aims to predict the breeding values of multiple complex traits, usually assumed to be multivariate normally distributed by the largely used statistical methods, thus imposing linear genetic relationships between traits. Althou...

The Vertebrate Breed Ontology: Toward Effective Breed Data Standardization.

Journal of veterinary internal medicine
BACKGROUND: Limited universally-adopted data standards in veterinary medicine hinder data interoperability and therefore integration and comparison; this ultimately impedes the application of existing information-based tools to support advancement in...

Classification accuracy of machine learning algorithms for Chinese local cattle breeds using genomic markers.

Yi chuan = Hereditas
Accurate breed classification is required for the conservation and utilization of farm animal genetic resources. Traditional classification methods mainly rely on phenotypic characterization. However, it is difficult to distinguish between the highly...

Genome-wide prediction for complex traits under the presence of dominance effects in simulated populations using GBLUP and machine learning methods.

Journal of animal science
The aim of this study was to compare the predictive performance of the Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Predictor (GBLUP) and machine learning methods (Random Forest, RF; Support Vector Machine, SVM; Artificial Neural Network, ANN) in simulated populatio...

A review of traditional and machine learning methods applied to animal breeding.

Animal health research reviews
The current livestock management landscape is transitioning to a high-throughput digital era where large amounts of information captured by systems of electro-optical, acoustical, mechanical, and biosensors is stored and analyzed on a daily and hourl...

Technical note: an R package for fitting sparse neural networks with application in animal breeding.

Journal of animal science
Neural networks (NNs) have emerged as a new tool for genomic selection (GS) in animal breeding. However, the properties of NN used in GS for the prediction of phenotypic outcomes are not well characterized due to the problem of over-parameterization ...

Effects of supplementing methionine hydroxy analog on beef cow performance, milk production, reproduction, and preweaning calf performance.

Journal of animal science
Mature Simmental × Angus cows (214 cows; 635 ± 7 kg) were utilized to determine the effects of late gestation and early postpartum supplementation of methionine hydroxy analog (MHA) on cow BW, BCS, milk production, milk composition, reproduction, and...

Developmental and reproductive characteristics of beef heifers classified by pubertal status at time of first breeding.

Journal of animal science
Data collected for 10 or more years at the West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte, NE ( = 1,104); the Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory, Whitman, NE ( = 1,333); and the USDA, ARS, Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, Mi...