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Mario Calus

Senior researcher at Wageningen Livestock Research at Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research

Areas of expertise

  • - Genomic prediction
  • - Collaboration with industry
  • - Developing software
  • - Animal breeding and genetics
  • - Genetics
  • - Genomics
  • - Animal husbandry
  • - Breeds
  • - Dairy cattle
  • - Animal breeding methods
  • - Markers
  • - Genotype environment interaction
  • - Genomic selection

Major works

Courses and Programs taught by dr.ir. MPL (Mario) Calus

Publications by dr.ir. MPL (Mario) Calus

Multibreed genomic prediction using multitrait genomic residual maximum likelihood and multitask Bayesian variable selection. Calus, M. P. L., M. E. Goddard, Y. C. J. Wientjes, P. J. Bowman, and B. J. Hayes (2018). Journal of Dairy Science.

Fecal microbial composition associated with variation in feed efficiency in pigs depends on diet and sex. Verschuren, L. M. G., M. P. L. Calus , A. J. M. Jansman, R. Bergsma, E. F. Knol, H. Gilbert, and O. Zemb (2018). Journal of Animal Science

SNPrune: an efficient algorithm to prune large SNP array and sequence datasets based on high linkage disequilibrium. Calus, M. P. L. and J. Vandenplas (2018). Genetics Selection Evolution

Efficient genomic prediction based on whole-genome sequence data using split-and-merge Bayesian variable selection. Calus, M. P. L., A. C. Bouwman, C. Schrooten, and R. F. Veerkamp (2016). Genetics Selection Evolution

Evaluation of measures of correctness of genotype imputation in the context of genomic prediction: a review of livestock applications. Calus M.P.L., Bouwman A.C., Hickey J.M., Veerkamp R.F., Mulder H.A. (2014). Animal. 8 (2014) 17431753

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About me

Mario is senior researcher at Wageningen Livestock Research in the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre of Wageningen University and Research.

Courses and Programs taught by Mario Calus