[PDF] Top 20 Genetic Parameters for Live Weight and Reproductive Traits in Moghani Sheep

... Moghani sheep are indigenous to highland of Iran, and highly valued for their meat and wool ...Body weight is determined by genetic and environmental ...direct and ... See full document

... REA and BF were obtained from cross-sectional images of the longissimus muscle (LM) between the 12th and 13th ...medium and biceps femoris muscles located between the hooks and pin ... See full document

... replicates and five plants (10 plants of a same family) per plot arranged in rows (4x2m ...considering reproductive and vegetative traits, according to the development of the plants ... See full document

... counts and packed cell volume are traits commonly used for the identification of resistant animals; however, they are costly to measure because they require expensive equipment that are not feasible for ... See full document

... (1995) in dual purpose crossbred breed (0.08). Meyer et al. (1994) and Tosh and Kemp (1994) supported that differences in the maternal additive genetic effects among breeds have been ... See full document

... tagging weight, harvest weight and survival, after a culture period of 150 days, in the 2008 grow-out period, from March to ...evaluated traits, all relevant information, such as sex, ... See full document

... body weight at 18 months of age (W18), average daily gain, scrotal circumference and visual scores of body structure, precocity and muscularity collected according to the method of Koury Filho & ... See full document

... between reproductive efficiency and four microsatellite markers located in synteny with genes involved in the regulation of reproductive ...(D9S1) and MM12E6 (D9S20) ... See full document

... spawning and multiple spawning were not good indicators of the genetic merit of female Nile ...genotype and allowed the use of this trait as a selection ...female reproductive performance by ... See full document

... NLB/EL and NLW/EL, TWLB/EL, TWLW/EL, TNLB and TWLB was estimated positive and medium to high (range from ...(2012). Genetic and phonotypic correlations between TWLB/EL and ... See full document

... (co)variance and genetic parameters for birth weight (BWT) and weaning weight (WWT) in Santa Ines ...(Co)variance parameters were obtained through a two- trait ... See full document

... female traits analyzed were age at first calving (16,347 records), adult weight (5,934 records) and cumula- tive productivity (7,681 records) while the male traits were scrotal circumference ... See full document

... resulted in important economic benefits for beef cattle ...these traits has been shown to be insufficient, as these traits do not describe the complete growth potential of the ani- mals and do ... See full document

... the genetic parameters for productive and reproductive traits of a multiple-breed dairy cattle population, as well as to investigate the effect of the genetic group of the ... See full document

... BF and 12% for ...being in the interval from 0.02 to 0.29 for BF and from ...0.04 and 0.20 for TT based on data from three Croatian farms for Swedish and Dutch Landrace, Large White, ... See full document

... The genetic correlations between PMAB with HP, SCR and HB ...high and favorable, except between PMAB and PP (0.49), which was in oppo- site ...tor, and HP (Spivak and ... See full document

... role in Brazilian ...cultivars and improved fruit ...investigate genetic variability in full-sib progenies of Psidium guajava (guava) and estimate the genetic progress obtained ... See full document

... Campos and Lizieire (2005), age at first calving from 23 to 25 months can be considered indicative of reproductive efficiency of Holstein ...selected in Holsteins, deserves attention in animal ... See full document

... morphometric traits showed good potential for selection because they present estimates of heritability of medium to high magnitude, are genetically correlated, and furthermore, still had significant ... See full document

... (YP), and musculature (YM) at yearling are shown in table ...period, genetic gains were observed in score units for the YC ...(0.01496), and YM ...(0.031), and YM (0.030) scores. ... See full document