• Can genomics cope with a 30% reduction of methane emission from livestock in 10 years? 

      González Recio, Oscar; López Paredes, Javier; Saborío Montero, Alejandro; López García, Adrián; Gutiérrez Rivas, Mónica; Goiri Zamora, Idoia; Atxaerandio Galdos, Raquel; Ugarte Sagastizábal, Eva; Charffedine, Noureddine; Jiménez Montero, José Antonio; García Rodríguez, Aser (2022)
      Livestock will face an important challenge within the next decade to cope with the objective of cut by 30% methane emissions, as agreed in the COP26. This study summarises the latest genetic parameter estimates between ...
    • Dry matter intake, methane emissions and microbiome profiles as new traits for feed efficiency 

      López Paredes, Javier; Saborío Montero, Alejandro; Charffedine, Noureddine; Jiménez Montero, José Antonio; González Recio, Oscar (2021-04)
      This study estimated the genetic parameters for feed efficiency, dry matter intake, methane production, and ruminal microbiome profile in order to incorporate feed efficiency into the breeding goal. Data consisted of 11,042 ...
    • Rumen eukaryotes are the main phenotypic risk factors for larger methane emissions in dairy cattle 

      Saborío Montero, Alejandro; Gutiérrez Rivas, Mónica; Goiri Zamora, Idoia; Atxaerandio Galdos, Raquel; García Rodríguez, Aser; López Paredes, Javier; Jiménez Montero, José Antonio; González Recio, Oscar (2022-07-06)
      Mitigation of methane emissions from dairy cattle is a relevant strategy to reduce environmental impact from livestock as well as to increase farm profitability through improvement of energy usage. The objective of this ...