Estimates of direct and maternal (co)variance components as well as genetic parameters of growth traits in Nellore sheep.

doi:10.1007/s11250-017-1344-2

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Estimates of direct and maternal (co)variance components as well as genetic parameters of growth traits in Nellore sheep.

Tropical animal health and production - 1 Oct 2017

I Satish Kumar, C Vijaya Kumar, G Gangaraju, Nath Sapna, A K Thiruvenkadan

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In the present study, (co)variance components and genetic parameters in Nellore sheep were obtained by restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method using six different animal models with various combinations of direct and maternal genetic effects for birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), 6-month weight (6MW), 9-month weight (9MW) and 12-month weight (YW). Evaluated records of 2075 lambs descended from 69 sires...

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Animals
Birth Weight
Environment
Female
India
Male
Maternal Inheritance
Phenotype
Sheep, Domestic
Weight Gain

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PMID: 28691136
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-017-1344-2

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