Selection signatures for heat tolerance in Brazilian horse breeds

Livestock breeding, conservation and genomics in Brazil: Who, when, where, and what

“…As these animals are moving into new environments with relevant impacts of these changes on breeding values (Souza et al, 2021;. This is also essential looking at the predicted effects of climate change on animal production systems (Paim et al, 2022;McManus et al, 2022) and the search for selection signatures (Walugembe et al, 2019;Peripolli et al, 2020;Faria et al, 2022). Another strategy to be enhanced should be the reduction of the gap between conservation and breeding programs (Paiva et al, 2016).…”