The Effect of Sow Maternal Behavior on the Growth of Piglets and a Genome-Wide Association Study
Xin Liu, Hanmei Li, Ligang Wang, Longchao Zhang, Lixian Wang, Michael E Davis · 2023
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Xin Liu and co-authors study, in 2023 work, how a sow's mothering ways shape her piglets' growth, and hunt the genes behind those ways. Good mothering lifts piglet life and weight, which pig farms prize, yet its gene roots were little known. The team split sows into good and poor mothers and weighed their young.
Piglets of good mothers grew better, most clearly in sows with past litters. Gene scans of more than four hundred fifty sows tied twenty small code shifts to four mothering traits, from biting young to a scream test. One hundred thirty-eight genes sat near those shifts. Three stood out as lead picks for breeding marks. The team offers them as a start for gene-led farm choice.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xin Liu, Hanmei Li, Ligang Wang, Longchao Zhang, Lixian Wang, Michael E Davis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |