Development of selection strategies for genetic improvement in production traits of Mecheri sheep based on a Bayesian multi trait evaluation

• Balakrishnan Balasundaram,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Orathanadu, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Jaganadhan Muralidharan,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mecheri Sheep Research Station, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2908-9857

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• Nagarajan Murali,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Doraiswamy Cauveri,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Angamuthu Raja,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Moses Okpeku,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Discipline of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa

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• Aranganoor Kannan Thiruvenkadan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: drthirusiva@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5849-2800

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