This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 772787.
Public Deliverables
- D1.1: Report of novel phenotypes related to feed efficiency
- D1.2: Report on genetic correlations of feed efficiency and other economically important traits
- D1.3: Peer-rewiewed paper on the genetic basis of feed resource use utilisation
- D1.4: G×E interaction for the resource use efficiency related phenotypes
- D2.1: Report on new immunological and physiological profiles linked to disease phenotypes in locally-adapted breeds
- D2.2: New breeding goals for lifetime resilience for maternal sheep breeding programmes
- D2.3: Paper of quantification of new disease biomarkers linked to production. New disease phenotypes for endemic diseases linked to key production traits
- D2.4: New prototype and report for industry on GPS-generated phenotypes for behavioural adaptations to extensive grazing systems; artificial rearing adaptation phenotypes; lamb vigour scores linked to lamb survival; new foetal and neonatal survival phenotypes
- D2.5: Genome-wide association studies for resilience traits in small ruminant populations in Europe and Uruguay
- D3.1: Submitted scientific publication on the genetic parameters between efficiency, resilience and reproduction related traits in sheep and goats
- D3.2: Report on the characterization of efficiency and resilience in lines of sheep and goat divergently selected
- D3.3: Scientific manuscript and source code of prediction models for trade-offs under nutritional and infectious challenges
- D3.4: Report on identified pleiotropic QTLs and potential undelying genes and pathways associated efficiency, resilience and re-production related traits
- D3.5: Report on trajectory characteristics of resilient animals, and strategies to manipulate these
- D4.2: Report on demography and genetic diversity of underutilised breeds
- D4.4: Papers on genetic characterization demography and adaptation of local small ruminant breeds
- D5.1: Method for identifying environmental challenge events and value for selection for resilience
- D.5.2: A report of an improved method to calculate genomic relationship across individuals of different purebred and crossbred populations
- D8.3: First batch of practice abstracts for end-users