Marie-José MERCAT

Analysis of genetic variability of Spanish and French pig populations from paternity test data

Poster. Purebred males of the Spanish and French populations of this study are quasi systematically subjected to paternity control. Ten microsatellite markers are in common between analyses realised in Spain…

Pedigree and genomic evaluation of pigs using a terminal cross model

In a terminal cross, individuals from purebred parental lines are selected to produce crossbred individuals. Up to now, the inclusion of crossbred information for selecting parental lines has not led…

Whole-genome sequencing of cryopreserved resources from French Large White pigs at two distinct sampling times reveals strong signatures of convergent and divergent selection between the dam and sire lines

Background: Numerous genomic scans for positive selection have been performed in livestock species within the last decade, but often a detailed characterization of the detected regions (gene or trait under…

Cartographie fine de QTL porcins : projet Biomark. BIOMARK : Une évaluation minutieuse de plusieurs QTL en ségrégation dans les lignées commerciales françaises en vue de leur cartographie fine et de la mise en place d'une sélection assistée par marqueur

Des très nombreux QTL ont été détectés influençant pratiquement tous les caractères pour lesquels des QTL ont été recherchés (Bidanel et Rothschild, 2002). La plupart du temps, ces études ont…