Figure 1.

Schematic overview of different phenotypes of commercial crossbred animals describing parts of resilience along the lifetime of an animal discussed in this article. Survival curve of a mean finisher with an average birth weight estimated from 9,506 crossbreds with a Cox proportional hazard model (Kleinbaum and Klein, 2011). 1a, Survival Through Life; 1b, Specific and General Disease Infection Trials; 1c, Performance Data From Commercial Farms; 1d, Meat Inspection Data. Data from experimental trials in italics. 2, Genomic Tools and Monogenic Effects. Embryonic recessive lethals estimated from 50K SNP genotype data.