Erling Strandberg

Min forskning är för närvarande mest inriktad på den genetiska bakgrunden till beteende hos hund, avel på mjölkkor och hästar samt en del forskning med inriktning mot u-länder.

Min forskning har mycket handlat om skattning av genetisk variation för olika typer av egenskaper (fruktsamhet, hälsa, beteende, modersegenskaper, livslängd, prestation och produktion) i olika djurslag (mest mjölkkor, hästar och hundar). 

Jag undervisar främst i kurserna Husdjursgenetik - hälsa, beteende och välfärd, samt grundläggande avelskurser och global animalieproduktion.

• Genomiska studier av sydamerikanska kamelider från Bolivia - Pilar Román
• Selektionsstrategier inom svenskt varmblod - Sandra Bonow
• Mer kött på benen - urval av köttrastjurar för korsning med mjölkkor - Victoria Ekenberg

Nyligen avslutade doktorandprojekt:

• Improved breeding program for trotting horses in Sweden - Paulina Berglund
• Studies of pregnancy loss in dairy cattle - Patricia Gullstrand
• Use of cow genotyping to improve genetic progress, farm profit and food production in Sweden (industry PhD student Christian Bengtsson, VikingGenetics)
• Individually adapted lactation lengths in dairy cattle - Anna Edvardsson Rasmussen, PhD student at dept of animal nutrition and management
• Crossbreeding in dairy cattle: novel breeding tools for sustainable dairy and beef production - Julie Brastrup Clasen

Hund och häst

• Strandberg, E., Nilsson, K. & Svartberg, K. 2025. Genetic parameters of personality traits in dogs based on behavioral assessment and questionnaire information. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 286 106619 
• Bonow, S., Hernlund, E., Eriksson, S., Strandberg, E., & Gelinder Viklund, Å. 2025. Prevalence and risk of orthopedic diagnoses in insured Swedish Warmblood horses. Prev. Vet. Med. 242 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2025.106596
• Berglund, P., Andonov, S., Strandberg, E. & Eriksson, S. 2025. Better hoof, better horse - Genetic correlations between ability to race barefoot and performance in Swedish trotting horses. Animal Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2025, 101664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2025.101664
• Berglund, P., Andonov, S., Jansson, A., Olsson, C., Lundqvist, T., Strandberg, E. & Eriksson, S. 2025. The ability to race barefoot is a heritable trait in Standardbred and Coldblooded trotters Genetics Selection Evolution
• Nordang Kieler, Ida, Sofia Malm Persson, Ragnvi Hagman, Voichita D. Marinescu, Åke Hedhammar, Erling Strandberg, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, and Maja Louise Arendt. 2024. Genome wide association study in Swedish Labrador retrievers identifies genetic loci associated with hip dysplasia and body weight. Scientfic Reports 14, 6090 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56060-y
• Bonow, S., Eriksson, S., Strandberg, E., Thorén Hellsten, E. & Gelinder Viksten, Å. 2024. Relationship between descriptive linearly scored traits and sport performance in the Swedish Warmblood horse population. Livestock Science 282 (2024) 105438
• Berglund, P., Andonov, S., Strandberg, E. & Eriksson, S. 2023. Should performance at different race lengths be treated as genetically distinct traits in Coldblooded trotters? J. Animal Breeding and Genetics 141:220–234. DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12837
• Strandberg, E. Linda Andersson, Ulf Emanuelson, Charlotte Reinhard Bjørnvad, Sara Ringmark, Åke Hedhammar, and Katja Höglund. 2023. Heritability and Genetic Trend of Body Weight in Dogs of Different Breeds in Sweden. J Anim Sci 101:skad173. doi: 10.1093/jas/skad173
  
  

Mjölkkor

• Edvardsson Rasmussen, A., Strandberg, E., Kronqvist, C., Holtenius, K. & Båge, R. 2025. Letter to the editor: Associations between days open and dry period length versus milk production, replacement, and fertility in the subsequent lactation in Holstein dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 108:12872–12874
• Edvardsson-Rasmussen, A., Holtenius, K., Båge, R., Strandberg, E., Åkerlind, M. & Kronqvist, Cecilia. 2024. Customized voluntary waiting period before first insemination in primiparous dairy cows: Effect on milk production, fertility, and health. J. Dairy Sci. 107:9558-9571. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-24593
• Bengtsson, C., Stålhammar, H., Thomasen, J.R., Eriksson, S., Fikse, W.F., Strandberg, E. 2025. Simulation of long-term impact of dairy cattle mating programs using genomic information at the herd level. Animal (acc)
• Liedgren, S., Fikse, W.F., Nilsson, K. & Strandberg, E. 2024. Functional traits and 305-day yields of purebred dairy cows and crossbreds between Swedish Red, Swedish Holstein, Jersey, and Montbéliarde in Swedish herds. Front. Anim. Sci. 5:1427014. doi:10.3389/fanim.2024.1427014
• Espinola Alfonso, R.E., Fikse, W.F., Calus, M. & Strandberg, E. 2024. How does a beef x dairy calving affect the dairy cow’s following lactation? J Dairy Sci. 107:  https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-24170
• Ask-Gullstrand, P., Strandberg, E., Båge, R. & Berglund, B. 2024. Effect of genetic defects on pregnancy loss in Swedish dairy cattle. J. Dairy Sci. 107: 2999-3005
• Ask-Gullstrand, P., E. Strandberg, R. Båge and B. Berglund. 2023. Genetic parameters of pregnancy loss in dairy cows estimated from pregnancy-associated glycoproteins in milk. J. Dairy Sci. 106:6316-6324. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2022-23007
• Eriksson, S., A.M. Johansson and E. Strandberg. 2023. Changes in genomic inbreeding and diversity over half a century in Swedish Red and Swedish Holstein dairy cattle. J. Animal Breeding and Genetics 140(3):295-303.  doi: 10.1111/jbg.12758
• Edvardsson-Rasmussen, A., Holtenius, K., Båge, R., Strandberg, E., Åkerlind, M. & Kronqvist, Cecilia, 2023. A randomized study on the effect of extended voluntary waiting period in primiparous dairy cows on milk yield during first and second lactation. J Dairy Sci 106(4):2510-2518. doi: 10.3168/jds.2022-22773
• Edvardsson-Rasmussen, A., Båge, R., Holtenius, K., Strandberg, E., von Brömssen, C.,  Åkerlind, M. & Kronqvist, Cecilia, 2023. A randomized study on the effect of an extended voluntary waiting period in primiparous dairy cows on fertility, health and culling during first and second lactation. J. Dairy Sci. 106:8897-8909 https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-23470