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Project coordination
Contact
Prof. Dr. Henner Simianer
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 3
D-37075 Göttingen
Germany
Tel. +49 551 39-5604
E-mail
www.uni-goettingen.de/tierzucht 
Subproject 1: Dairy cows and cattle
Improving performance, animal health & welfare, environmental impact and product quality in organic and ‘low input’ dairy cow and beef cattle production systems
Responsible
The subproject
Work packages of subproject 1
- WP1.1 Development of WITHIN BREED selection systems to improve animal health, product quality and performance traits; comparing genome-wide and traditional quantitative-genetic selection
- WP1.2 Development of improved CROSS-BREEDING strategies to optimise the balance between ‘robustness’ and performance traits; comparing cross-breeds with pure-bred Holstein Friesian genotypes
- WP1.3 Design of optimised breeding and management systems for different MACRO-CLIMATIC REGIONS of Europe; model-based multi-criteria evaluation with respect to performance, animal health and welfare, product quality and environmental impact
Simulation tool for a comparison of traditional and genomic breeding programs for organic and low input dairy cattle
In the context of the EU project LowInputBreeds a deterministic simulation was developed that allows the assessment of traditional and genomic breeding programs for organic and low input dairy cattle accounting for traits relevant in different macro-climatic zones.
Simulation tool
The basic characteristics and an exemplary application is derived in the manuscript Frevert et al. (2014).
The simulation is implemented in the ZPLAN+ system (Täubert et al., 2010) to optimize breeding programs. The implementation can be accessed via this link:
- URL: https://service.vit.de/zplanplus/
- Login name: LIB
To obtain the password, please contact hsimian@no-spam.gwdg.de
Then you arrive at the main page (see figure), where a set of breeding programs described in the manuscript are preinstalled. All parameters of this breeding program can be modified according to the respective research questions. This allows the assessment of the efficiency of breeding options in terms of genetic gain and economic efficiency.
Further information
Links
orgprints.org: Frevert H., Yin T., Simianer H. and König S. (2014) Comparison of traditional and genomic breeding programs for organic and low input dairy cattle accounting for traits relevant in different macro-climatic zones . (Paper)
References
- Frevert H., Yin T., Simianer H. and König S. (2014) Comparison of traditional and genomic breeding programs for organic and low input dairy cattle accounting for traits relevant in different macro-climatic zones. In preparation
- Täubert, H., F. Reinhardt, und H. Simianer (2010). ZPLAN+, a new software to evaluate and optimize animal breeding programs. Proc. 9th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, 1.-6. August 2010, Leipzig, Germany