12.05.2008

Avian Genetics

The poultry breeding companies Aviagen, Hy-Line International and Lohmann Tierzucht have committed to a combined initiative to evaluate and implement a new genetic technology - Genome Wide Selection - in their respective breeding programs.
The companies will use the collective experience they have gained over the past decade from their individual genomics investments and sponsor a major new research initiative to advance this breeding technology.
Individually they have developed an extensive panel of markers for their unique genetic lines. The goal of this project is to optimize the effectiveness of Genome Wide Selection in its widest sense.