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Research Project: Multi-Dimension Phenotyping to Enhance Prediction of Performance in Swine

Location: Genetics and Animal Breeding

Publications (Clicking on the reprint icon Reprint Icon will take you to the publication reprint.)

Impact of crate design, number of heat lamps, and lying posture on the occurrence of shoulder lesions in sows Reprint Icon - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Bery, S., Brown-Brandl, T.M., Rohrer, G.A., Sharma, S., Leonard, S.M. 2024. Impact of crate design, number of heat lamps, and lying posture on the occurrence of shoulder lesions in sows. Biosystems Engineering. 247:249-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2024.09.017.

Online feeding behavior monitoring of individual group-housed grow-finish pigs using a low-frequency RFID electronic feeding system - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Determining the presence and size of shoulder lesions in sows using computer vision Reprint Icon - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Bery, S., Brown-Brandl, T.M., Jones, B.T., Rohrer, G.A., Sharma, S.R. 2023. Determining the presence and size of shoulder lesions in sows using computer vision. Animals. 14(1). Article 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14010131.

Statistical and machine learning approaches to describe factors affecting pre-weaning mortality of piglets - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Estimation of cell type proportions from bulk RNA-Seq of porcine whole blood samples using partial reference-free deconvolution Reprint Icon - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Keel, B.N., Lindholm-Perry, A.K., Rohrer, G.A., Oliver, W.T. 2023. Estimation of cell type proportions from bulk RNA-Seq of porcine whole blood samples using partial reference-free deconvolution. Animal Gene. 30. Article 200159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.angen.2023.200159.

Identifying early-life behavior to predict mothering ability in swine utilizing NUtrack system Reprint Icon - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Millburn, S., Schmidt, T., Rohrer, G.A., Mote, B. 2023. Identifying early-life behavior to predict mothering ability in swine utilizing NUtrack system. Animals. 13(18). Article 2897. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13182897.

Methods to predict lameness in sows - (Abstract Only)