Not AvailableA general method of construction of multilevel factorial experiments that are linear trend-free for main effects and few lower order interaction effects has been developed.
Breed descriptor has been developed to identify breed that cover only “pure breed” or true to the
breed type animals excluding undefined or admixture population. Moreover, in case of semen, ova,
embryo and breed product, the breed cannot be identified due to lack of visible phenotypic descriptors. Advent of molecular markers like microsatellite and SNP have revolutionized breed identification from even small biological tissue or germplasm. Microsatellite DNA marker based breed assignments has been reported in various domestic animals. Such methods have limitations viz. non availability of allele data in
public domain, thus each time all reference breed has to be genotyped which is neither logical nor economical. Even if such data is available, computational methods need expertise of data analysis and interpretation. The first goat breed identification server has been developed using microsatellite DNA markers and is available at http://cabin.iasri.res.in/gomi/.
A user friendly software has been developed for estimating the compound growth rate (WebECGR) and the same has been uploaded at http://iasri.res.in/cgrNot Availabl
