Genetic_Improvements_In_Beef

Genetic Improvements In Beef Genetic Improvements in the Beef Industry Procedures of genetic evaluation of domestic animals for economically important traits experienced significant changes during the past half a century. These changes will accelerate in the future as a consequence of the emergence of new quantitative genetic tools currently being developed. These new genetic tools rely on biotechnologies developed from joint research and development efforts in areas as diverse as physical sciences, engineering, material sciences, computer sciences, physiology, molecular genetics, genomics, functional genomics, robotics, and nanotechnology. The development of results among researchers from a wide range of scientific areas has opened the door for new and innovative solutions to current research problems, and reduced the length of time between research results and the development of applications in the field. These collaborations have occurred within universities, within private companies, and across universities and private research institutions. Substantial private industry support has probably been the major force behind this trend. Universities have become active participants in research-for-profit endeavors, a trend that is likely to continue and expand in the future. All these biotechnological developments have had a comparatively small effect on the genetic improvement of domestic animals. Most of its impact, genetic, cattle, beef, future, evaluation, been, traits, research, animal, increase, predictions, number, important, new, likely, improvement, developed, changes, animals, universities, techniques, season, sciences, results, procedures, private, prediction, performance, over, however, economically, domestic, development, data, dairy