Increase of productive qualities of agricultural animals using biotechnological techniques and methods
A further increase of the technology efficiency for livestock produce cannot be ensured with no complex application of modern genetics methods in the breeding system and technological solutions. A genotype selection (breeding), assuming the determination of genes directly or indirectly related to economic traits (marker selection) has a number of advantages compared to a traditional selection. It makes it possible to evaluate animals of tender age, does not consider traits variability due to environment conditions, and as a result increases the efficiency of selection. The search, research and experimental substantiation of using the molecular and genetic markers of animals’ performance traits are sore issues of the modern animal science.