Projects

Development and delivery of improved genotyping tools for the sheep industry

The project invests to develop genotyping tools for the sheep industry to improve prediction accuracy for productivity traits and genetic defects. Advanced statistical methods will be used to optimize and validate predictive SNP sets to be added to genotyping tools used in industry.

Project date

15 May 2019 - 15 Nov 2021

Principal investigator

Caris Elizabeth Jones

Research organisation

University of New England (UNE)

Project funded by

Organisation

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Research funding body

MLA’s purpose is to foster the long-term prosperity of the Australian red meat and livestock industry.

We do this by:

Delivering research and development that contributes to producer profitability, sustainability and global competitiveness
Growing demand for red meat in Australia and overseas

MLA is a public company limited by guarantee....

New South Wales, Australia