Ovita's goal is to support the sheep industry in developing biological tools to enable farmers to make selection choices that best meet their goals - be they geographical, environmental or market driven.

Ovita is a consortium consisting of two partners, AgResearch Ltd and Beef + Lamb New Zealand. Our key focus is in genomics, an area in which we have world-leading expertise.

Catapult Genetics, a former Ovita business unit, is now a wholly-owned subsidiary focusing on Sheep and Cattle DNA testing technologies. Catapult Genetics has now become Pfizer Animal Genetics. Pfizer Animal Genetics is the commercialisation partner for Ovita and have first right of refusal for all new DNA marker technology developed by Ovita.

Key points:

• We are focused on industry-good sheep genomics
• AgResearch is the lead provider of research services to Ovita
• Pfizer Animal Genetics is Ovita's commercialisation partner.