Search Results - "Wickham, B.W."

Breeding objectives for sheep in Ireland: A bio-economic approach by Byrne, T.J., Amer, P.R., Fennessy, P.F., Cromie, A.R., Keady, T.W.J., Hanrahan, J.P., McHugh, M.P., Wickham, B.W.

“…Breeding objectives for meat sheep in Ireland have been defined and used in the development of selection sub-indices to provide commercial producers with an…”
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A preference-based approach to deriving breeding objectives: applied to sheep breeding by Byrne, T. J., Amer, P. R., Fennessy, P. F., Hansen, P., Wickham, B. W.

“…Using internet-based software known as 1000Minds, choice-experiment surveys were administered to experts and farmers from the Irish sheep industry to capture…”
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A catalogue of validated single nucleotide polymorphisms in bovine orthologs of mammalian imprinted genes and associations with beef production traits by Magee, D. A., Berkowicz, E. W., Sikora, K. M., Berry, D. P., Park, S. D. E., Kelly, A. K., Sweeney, T., Kenny, D. A., Evans, R. D., Wickham, B. W., Spillane, C., MacHugh, D. E.

“…Genetic (or ‘genomic’) imprinting, a feature of approximately 100 mammalian genes, results in monoallelic expression from one of the two parentally inherited…”
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Metabolic responses to exogenous bovine somatotropin in Friesian cows of low or high genetic merit by Michel, A, McCutcheon, S N, Mackenzie, D D, Tait, R M, Wickham, B W

“…Basal hormone/metabolite concentrations and responses to intravenous challenges of glucose, insulin and epinephrine were examined in Friesian cows from…”
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Breeding objectives for beef cattle in Ireland by Amer, P.R., Simm, G., Keane, M.G., Diskin, M.G., Wickham, B.W.

“…Breeding objectives for beef cattle in Ireland were derived and used to define selection sub-indexes. The intention of the sub-indexes was to simplify…”
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