A new research project, funded in part by Genome Alberta, aims to unlock genetic resistance to circovirus and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS).
“Health of livestock is one of the areas that genomics can have a huge impact on, because it’s very difficult to improve the genetics of health by traditional animal breeding. So if we can find variation in the genome that’s linked to variation in susceptibility to disease, then that will become a tool of major importance for the animal breeding industry,” says Dr. Graham Plastow, one of the lead researchers of the project.
“Health of livestock is one of the areas that genomics can have a huge impact on, because it’s very difficult to improve the genetics of health by traditional animal breeding. So if we can find variation in the genome that’s linked to variation in susceptibility to disease, then that will become a tool of major importance for the animal breeding industry,” says Dr. Graham Plastow, one of the lead researchers of the project.