The information nucleus: A new concept to enhance sheep industry genetic improvement

N M Fogarty; Robert Banks; Julius Herman Van Der Werf; Alex Ball; John Paul Gibson

The information nucleus: A new concept to enhance sheep industry genetic improvement

N M Fogarty, Robert Banks, Julius Herman Van Der Werf, Alex Ball, John Paul Gibson

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The Information Nucleus is an innovation for sheep industry improvement that is a program of the new CRC for Sheep Industry Innovation. It will allow breeders to quickly exploit new technology and molecular information to achieve more rapid genetic improvement in the industry. Key young industry sires are progeny tested for an extensive range of traits in widely differing environments. Genetic information will be generated on new traits and those that are difficult to measure commercially. Some of the benefits will flow immediately to industry through enhanced accuracy of Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs) for current and new traits. The longer term benefits to industry will flow from development of sheep genomic technologies such as whole genome scans and molecular breeding values combined with existing quantitative ASBVs. The Information Nucleus involves mating 100 sires to 5000 ewes annually across 8 major sites over the range of sheep production environments in Australia. The progeny represent the major Merino and crossbred types in the industry and will be evaluated for a wide range of growth, carcass, meat, wool, reproduction and parasite resistance traits.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Editors	AAABG: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding, Genetics
Place of Publication	Armidale, Australia
Publisher	Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Pages	29-32
Volume	17
ISBN (Print)	1921208139
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	AAABG 2007: 17th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics - University of New England, Armidale, Australia Duration: 23 Sept 2007 → 26 Sept 2007

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Conference	AAABG 2007: 17th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
City	Armidale, Australia
Period	23/09/07 → 26/09/07

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Fogarty, N. M., Banks, R., Van Der Werf, J. H., Ball, A., & Gibson, J. P. (2007). The information nucleus: A new concept to enhance sheep industry genetic improvement. In AAABG. Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding, & Genetics (Eds.), Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (Vol. 17, pp. 29-32). Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG). https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4075

Fogarty, N M ; Banks, Robert ; Van Der Werf, Julius Herman et al. / The information nucleus : A new concept to enhance sheep industry genetic improvement. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. editor / AAABG: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding ; Genetics. Vol. 17 Armidale, Australia : Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), 2007. pp. 29-32

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Fogarty, NM, Banks, R, Van Der Werf, JH, Ball, A & Gibson, JP 2007, The information nucleus: A new concept to enhance sheep industry genetic improvement. in AAABG Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding & Genetics (eds), Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. vol. 17, Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), Armidale, Australia, pp. 29-32, AAABG 2007: 17th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Armidale, Australia, 23/09/07. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4075>

The information nucleus: A new concept to enhance sheep industry genetic improvement. / Fogarty, N M; Banks, Robert; Van Der Werf, Julius Herman et al.
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. ed. / AAABG: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding; Genetics. Vol. 17 Armidale, Australia: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), 2007. p. 29-32.

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