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A note on the use of mate selection in closed MOET breeding schemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

M. Toro ,
L. Silió  and
M. Pérez-Enciso
M. Toro
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia, Instituto National de Investigaciones Agrarias, Apartado 8111, 28080 Madrid, Spain
L. Silió
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia, Instituto National de Investigaciones Agrarias, Apartado 8111, 28080 Madrid, Spain
M. Pérez-Enciso
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia, Instituto National de Investigaciones Agrarias, Apartado 8111, 28080 Madrid, Spain
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Abstract

Simulation results of closed MOET schemes have evidenced several problems issuing from selection in small populations using family information and diverse modifications of the original schemes have been proposed. Mate selection, based on linear programming techniques, includes most of the desirable properties of other methods and offers additional advantages. Some applications of this technique to improve the results of dairy cattle MOET schemes with hierarchical and factorial mating systems have been analysed in this note by computer simulation. Other applications of the method are also discussed.

Keywords

embryo transferlinear programmingmating systems
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Animal Production , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , December 1991 , pp. 403 - 406
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1991

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