@conference {79026,
	title = {Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) feed conversion efficiency: evaluation and potential for selection},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {72},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {227-230},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Christchurch},
	abstract = {Improving performance through selective breeding is a key priority for the New Zealand Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) aquaculture industry. The family selective breeding programme operated by The New Zealand King Salmon Company has successfully improved growth and quality after six generations of selection. However, feed conversion efficiency is not currently a direct breeding goal. Research was established to analyse daily feed intake and feed conversion ratio, a measure of feed efficiency, in 160 families over two spawning year classes. Daily feed intake assessment methodology employing digital X-radiography was validated and used to obtain repeated measurements of daily feed intake. Measurements of growth, and feed conversion ratio up to harvest size were also obtained. Genetic parameter estimates for daily feed intake and feed conversion ratio indicated that there are family differences for these traits. As a result the continued measurement of feed conversion ratio in The New Zealand King Salmon families and incorporation of the traits into The New Zealand King Salmon breeding programme is being considered.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Walker SP and Ingram M and J Bailey and Dodds KG and Fisher PJ and Amer PR and Symonds JE}
}
@conference {79008,
	title = {Potential for genomic selection of bovine embryos},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {72},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {156-158},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Christchurch},
	abstract = {Sexual reproduction is a genetic lottery. There is no guarantee that offspring receive a favourable combination of genes from their parents to form their genotype. For animal breeding, the conventional way of selection has been based on phenotyping adults or their progeny. Increasingly, however, dairy cattle breeding schemes are integrating the use of genomic selection of juvenile and adult candidates (Hayes et al. 2009; Pryce et al. 2010). To further increase the intensity of selection and accelerate the rate of genetic gain, we aim to genomically select bovine embryos within one week after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) using gametes from elite parents. The generation of multiple embryos from multi-factorial ... continued},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Fisher PJ and Hyndman DL and Bixley MJ and Oback FC and Popovic L and McGowan LT and Berg MC}
}
@conference {42074,
	title = {Genetic parameters for growth in Wapiti deer farmed in New Zealand},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {68},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {172-173},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Brisbane, Australia},
	abstract = {The New Zealand deer industry commonly uses "Wapiti" type deer as terminal sires mated to "red" hinds in venison production systems. The terms "Elk" and "Wapiti" are commonly used almost interchangeably in the New Zealand deer industry to describe subspecies of red deer originating in North America (Cervus elaphus subspecies manitobensis, roosevelti and nelsoni). These subspecies are approximately twice the mature body size of "red" deer ...Continued },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Archer JA and Ward JF and Fisher PJ and Glass BC}
}
