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The role of nutrition in genetic research

Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture

Abstract

One of the basic problems in animal production is the development of strains of livestock that are more efficient than those now existing in converting feed into meat or other products. This objective implies the cooperation of geneticists and nutrition workers, and it is well that both groups stop occasionally and take inventory of progress in this field; and that they consider ways and means of accomplishing this common goal more efficiently. First, thought must be given to measures now being used to accomplish the end in view, and, second, to discussing ways and means whereby further and more rapid progress may be made, or to considering whether progress is possible.

ARE VARIATIONS IN ABILITY TO UTILIZE FEED INHERITED?

The observation that animals vary in their ability to utilize feed is an old one, but to what extent such variability may be due to inheritance has never been determined. Quite recently, however, several workers have furnished evidence that genetic factors are important in controlling such differences.