[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 ...
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 ...
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 ...