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Evidence of the genetic trend for secondary sex ratio in Iranian Holsteins.
Reproduction, fertility, and development - 1 Jan 2012
Ghavi Hossein-Zadeh Navid
Abstract excerpt
Calving records from the Animal Breeding Center of Iran collected from January 2000 to December 2007 and comprising 520964 Holstein calving events from 2135 herds were analysed using animal and sire models to estimate variance components, heritabilities and genetic trends for secondary sex ratio (SSR) in the first, second and third parities. Direct heritabilities for SSR ranged from 0.00004 to 0.001 over the...
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