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Editor

Gesellschaft für Tierzuchtwissenschaften e. V. (German Society for Animal Science)

Local Organzising Committee

Kalm, Ernst (Chairman)
Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Kiel

Bergfeld, Uwe
Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, Dresden

Bongartz, Bettina
German Society for Animal Production e.V. (DGfZ), Bonn

Brenig, Bertram
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Göttingen

Dempfle, Leo
Technische Universität München, Department of Animal Science, Munich

Erhardt, Georg
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Gießen

Gauly, Matthias
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Department of Animal Sciences, Göttingen

Groeneveld, Eildert
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Neustadt/Mariensee

Knorr, Christoph
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Göttingen

Schwerin, Manfred
Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf

Simianer, Henner
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Department of Animal Sciences, Göttingen

Swalve, Hermann
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional
Sciences, Halle (Saale)

Thaller, Georg
Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Kiel

Permanent International Committee

Elsen, Jean-Michel, France (President) Bishop, Stephen, Great Britain Blasco, Agustín, Spain Cantet, Rodolfo, Argentina Erhardt, Georg, Germany Goddard, Mike, Australia Hill, William G., Great Britain Kalm, Ernst, Germany Lahlou-Kassi, Abdellatif, Morocco Li, Ning, China Lopez-Villalobos, Nicolas, New Zealand

MacNeil, Michael, United States of America Maiwashe, Azwihangwisi, South Africa Mwai, Ally Okeyo, Kenya Nimbkar, Chanda, India Sasaki, Yoshiyuki, Japan Schaeffer, Larry R., Canada Strandberg, Erling, Sweden Szwaczkowski, Tomasz, Poland Veerkamp, Roel, Netherlands Weigel, Kent, United States of America

Acknowledgement

We would like to sincerely thank all of the following persons for their contribution to the scientific program. We highly appreciate their willingness to serve as a chairperson and thus ensure a high-class scientific program.

Amer, Peter, New Zealand Bailey, Ernest, United States of America Baselga, Manuel, Spain Besbes, Badi, Italy Bijma, Piter, Netherlands Boichard, Didier, France Buys, Nadine, Belgium Cantet, Rodolfo, Argentina Curik, Ino, Croatia de Koning, Dirk-Jan, Great Britain Dempfle, Leo, Germany Ding, Xiangdong, China Gerrard, Dave, United States of America Gibson, John, Australia Gilbert, Hélène, France Hermesch, Susanne, Australia Kaiser, Pete, Great Britain Kijas, James, Australia

Knap, Pieter, Germany Madalena, Fernando, Brazil Malmfors, Birgitta, Sweden Mariante, Arthur, Brazil Newman, Scott, United States of America Niemann, Heiner, Germany Pinard-van der Laan, Marie-Hélène, France Ponzoni, Raul, Malaysia Röhe, Rainer, Great Britain Rydhmer, Lotta, Sweden Simianer, Henner, Germany Swalve, Hermann H., Germany Tempelman, Rob, United States of America Thaller, Georg, Germany Toro, Miguel, Spain van Arendonk, Johan, Netherlands Walling, Grant, Great Britain

Note

The authors are responsible for the contents of their full length papers published herewith and of the short abstracts published as a supplement to the main program of the 9th World Congress on Genetics applied to Livestock Production. Some measure of editing may have been necessary by the publishers.