2013 Sponsorship: The Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) Conference
Project start date: | 20 October 2013 |
Project end date: | 23 October 2013 |
Publication date: | 23 October 2013 |
Project status: | Completed |
Livestock species: | Sheep, Goat, Lamb, Grassfed cattle, Grainfed cattle |
Summary
Over the 30+ years since the first AAABG meeting there have been major advances in accompanying the sciences and technologies that support animal breeding and genetics huge increases in computing power, new statistical techniques, greater understanding of underlying biology, cloning, SIL, Breedplan, Lambplan and so on. The AAABG meetings have been an important means of bringing these advances to the attention of the wider animal breeding and genetics community.