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Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics of Justus-Liebig University of Giessen maintains the professorships for Animal Breeding and Genetics, Animal Husbandry and Biology of Husbandry as well as Pig Breeding and Breeding Small Animals.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - GENE-FL - Genetic Foundations foundation of stability for beef, pork, horse and sheep; Casting Project: Molecular Genetic characterization and analysis of the association of candidate genes for quality and mouth Moderhinke resistance in sheep
- Follow-up studies to identify genetic markers for selection of sheep to TSE susceptibility with particular reference to atypical cases
- Identification of genetic markers for selection of sheep to TSE susceptibility with particular reference to atypical cases
- Improvement of the longevity of dairy cows with special attention to ecological breeding strategies
- Influencing factors of behavioural characteristics at hog
- Joint project: Conservation of the population of Landrace of Bentheim, minimizing inbreeding and taking into account the breeding for scrapie resistance
- Limits of the breeding for performance - measures to reduce piglet losses in highly fertile sows
- Organic dairy cattle: development and evaluation of breeding approaches, taking into account the genotype x environment interaction and the creation of an information system for sustainable breeding strategies
- SFB 299: Project C1.2 - Animal Breeding
- Studies on group size and space requirements in the fattening rabbits
- Studies on the exemplary implementation of sustainable boar fattening on the farming, slaughtering and processing stage in organic farming
- Study of the formation of groups of sows in the presence of a boar
- Study on genetic factors controlling liver copper concentration in sheep
- Temperature-humidity independent genomic and phenotypic prediction of heat tolerance in dairy cows
- Validation of the significance of prion protein gene polymorphisms in sheep from TSE-positive populations in Germany as a base for the breeding and veterinary measures for the elimination of TSE stock
Involved in research projects
- Effects of varying percentages of the genotype Duroc in organic fat-tening pigs on performance, carcass and meat quality
- Joint project: Conservation of the population of Landrace of Bentheim, minimizing inbreeding and taking into account the breeding for scrapie resistance
- Value Imaging components of milk proteins - ACE inibitorische peptides
Contact
Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Ludwigstrasse 21
D 35390 Gießen
Hesse
Germany
Phone: +49 641 99-37620
Fax: +49 641 99-37629
Email: Tierzucht(@)agrar.uni-giessen.de
