The effect of inbreeding on racing performance in Norwegian cold-blooded trotters

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Cultivar development of kelps for commercial cultivation - Past lessons and future prospects

Cultivated kelps and other macroalgae have great potential in future provision of food, feed, bioenergy, fertilizer, and raw material for a range of chemical products including pharmaceuticals, food and feed additives, and cosmetics. Only a few species are currently cultivated, almost exclusively in Asia. There is a range of species that could be utilized in different parts of the world, providing that protocols for reproduction, propagation, and cultivation are developed. Domestication of species involves selection of traits that are desirable in cultivation and in the utilization of the harvested biomass. Genetic improvement of cultivated species through recombination of alleles and selection (breeding) has ensured high productivity and product quality in both agri- and aquaculture and will likely do so for macroalgae cultivation and use as well. According to the published literature, genetic improvement of kelps in Asia has so far largely relied on utilization of heterosis expressed in certain combinations of parental material, sometimes species hybrids. Here, we explore and evaluate the various methods that could be used in kelp breeding and propose an initial simple and low-cost breeding strategy based on recurrent mixed hybridization and phenotypic selection within local populations. We also discuss the genetic diversity in wild populations, and how this diversity can be protected against genetic pollution, either by breeding and cultivating local populations, or by developing cultivars that are not able to establish in, or hybridize with, wild populations.publishedVersio

A periodic analysis of longitudinal binary responses: a case study of clinical mastitis in Norwegian Red cows

A Bayesian procedure for analyzing longitudinal binary responses using a periodic cosine function was developed. It was assumed that, after adjustment for "seasonal" effects, the oscillation of the underlying latent variables for longitudinal binary responses was a stationary series. Based on this assumption, a single dimension sinusoidal analysis of longitudinal binary responses using the Gibbs sampling and Metropolis algorithms was implemented in a study of clinical mastitis records of Norwegian Red cows taken over five lactations

The relationship between Norwegian Red heifer growth and their first-lactation test-day milk yield: A field study

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Isotope fractionation in juvenile and large rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): Repeatability of stable isotope measures and their relationship to growth rate

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Indications of a negative genetic association between growth and digestibility in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

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The Montana Kaimin, January 17, 1922

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/1675/thumbnail.jp

Verifying the relationship between δ¹³C isotope profile variables and individual feed conversion ratio in large rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

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δ13C in muscle, liver, and adipose fin and their relationship to weight change during both growth and starvation in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), after feeding a diet low in 13C

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