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Spring 2021
The dairy industry in Canada has undergone huge changes in the last few decades. While the average annual milk production per cow grew over three times by 2015 (average rose to 8.65 Hectolitres per and reached 9.5 Hectolitres in 2018) from 1995 levels (2.5 Hectolitres a year per cow on average),...
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Spring 2019
Rapid advances in sequencing technologies and analysis methods have greatly increased our understanding of genomic architecture in non-model organisms. The mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a non-model organism that has received intensive genomic study and is of great...
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Phenotypic and genetic variation in Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis)
DownloadFall 2023
Genetic variation is a ubiquitous feature of natural populations and underpins much phenotypic variation. Genetic variance can be partitioned and examined at various hierarchical levels of organization to address fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. Patterns of genetic variance among...
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Fall 2021
Recent advances in genomics have revolutionized selective breeding in many agriculturally important animal species such as dairy cattle, poultry, and pork. However, the adoption of genomic selection in the beef industry has been slower for reasons such as the existence of multiple breeds, the...