Aoxing Liu: Genetic evaluation and quantitative trait loci detection for female fertility traits in dairy cattle
PhD defence, Tuesday 23 October 2018, Aoxing Liu
Poor female fertility has been widely observed in high-producing dairy cattle, which caused economic losses and aggregated environmental pressures. In this PhD project, Aoxing Liu carried out an extensive investigation for female fertility traits in Chinese and Nordic dairy cattle populations, including estimating genetic parameters, quantitative trait loci detection, genotype imputation, traditional genetic evaluation and genomic evaluation, and exploring genotype by environment interaction. The findings of this PhD project could help us better understand the biology underlying female fertility traits and genetically improve female fertility traits of current dairy cattle populations.
The PhD degree was completed at the Centre for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, and National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University.
This résumé was prepared by the PhD student.
Time: Tuesday, 23 October 2018 at 09.00
Place: Meeting room 4, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, China
Title of dissertation: Improvement of genetic evaluation and detection of quantitative trait loci for female fertility traits in dairy cattle
Contact information: Aoxing Liu, e-mail: aoxing.liu@mbg.au.dk
Members of the assessment committee:
Professor Pekka Uimari, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Professor Yuchun Pan, Department of Animal Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Professor Yan Fu, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
Professor Ning Yang, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, China
Associate Professor Knud Larsen (chair), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Main supervisors:
Senior Researcher Guosheng Su, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Professor Yachun Wang, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, China
Co-supervisor:
Professor Mogens Sandø Lund, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Language:
The dissertation will be defended in English.
The defence is public.
The dissertation is available for reading at the Graduate School of Science and Technology/GSST, Ny Munkegade 120, building 1520, rooms 128–134, 8000 Aarhus C.