Is feeding behaviour heritable in pigs?

Pork accounts for approximately 37% of the meat consumed by the world’s population. The growing demand for pork has motivated pig producers to significantly improve swine production. However, feed costs comprises nearly 70-80% of the total cost of production in the swine industry. Increasing feed efficiency is a key factor to reduce feed consumption, feed costs, energy use, manure production and the total amount of potential greenhouse gas emission. Feeding behaviour is one of the most impo