Advances in Pig Genetics and Breeding

Dear Colleagues,

Owing to various novel technological applications, the genetic improvement of pigs has rapidly progressed in recent decades. Nowadays, more and more economically relevant traits are being expanded as breeding objectives, such as litter size, birth weight, feed efficiency, lean percentage, meat quality, lifetime reproduction, and robustness. In addition, there have been rapid developments in high-throughput genome and cell molecular biology methods, and the processes involved in the identification of genes related to important phenotypic traits and genetic markers for pig selection have been significantly enhanced, leading to the development of fast, cost-effective, and more accurate methods for use in the implementation of breeding programs. In addition, artificial intelligence is now being employed to identify relevant new phenotypes and to implement tools to effectively measure traits. For this Special Issue, articles addressing all aspects of pig genetics and phenotypes are welcome, especially with a focus on the quantitative genetics of new phenotypes, the use of artificial intelligence to link phenotypes, genomic selection, breeding programs, gene polymorphisms, quantitative trait locus mapping, the identification of the genetic regulatory mechanisms and causative mutations affecting economically relevant traits, and the exploitation of native pig genetic resources.

Dr. Linyuan Shen
Dr. Mailin Gan
Guest Editors

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• pigs
• transcriptomics
• epigenomics
• genetic mechanisms
• genetic parameters
• genomic selection
• artificial intelligence linking phenotypes