[EN] INGA FOOD, S.A. initiated a crossbreeding program between two Iberian pig varieties, Retinto (R) and Entrepelado (E), with the goal of producing a hybrid sow (F1). Several studies have been conducted to evaluate its ...
Varona, Luis; Noguera, José Luis; Casellas, Joaquim; Martín de Hijas, Melani; Rosas, Juan Pablo; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia(Nature Publishing Group, 2020-12-03)
[EN] Perinatal piglet mortality is an important factor in pig production from economic and animal welfare perspectives; however, the statistical analysis of mortality is difficult because of its categorical nature. Recent ...
Martin de Hijas-Villalba, Melani; Varona, Luis; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Pablo Rosas, Juan; Luis Noguera, Jose; Casellas, Joaquim(Elsevier, 2021-03)
[EN] Seasonal patterns in the farrowing distribution of two Iberian pig varieties (Retinto and Entrepelado) and its environmental and genetic sources of variation were analyzed within the context of a von Mises circular ...
[EN] We proposed a genome association study for pig growth curves based on Bayesian hierarchical framework considering different sets of SNP markers and pedigree. Additionally, we aimed also to identify possible chromosome ...
Alonso, Ines; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Noguera, Jose L.; Casellas, Joaquim; Martin de Hijas-Villalba, Melani; Gracia-Santana, Maria J.; Varona, Luis(Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, 2020)
[EN] Aim of study: The objective of this study was to identify the autosomal genomic regions associated with genetic differentiation between three commercial strains of Iberian pig.
Area of study: Extremadura (Spain).
Material ...
Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Forni, Selma; Noguera, Jose Luis; Varona, Luis(Elsevier, 2014)
[EN] The inclusion of genomic information on prediction of breeding values has been explored by the pig breeding industry as molecular techniques evolved. Except for a few successful cases, for example the HAL-1843 (R), ...
Vazquez-Gomez, Marta; Martín de Hijas-Villalba, Melani; Varona, Luis; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Rosas, Juan Pablo; Negro, Sara; Noguera, Jose Luis; Casellas, Joaquim(MDPI, 2020-09)
[EN] Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is defined as the allele transmission deviation from the heterozygous parent to the offspring from the expected Mendelian genotypic frequencies. Although TRD can be a confounding ...