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Direct and maternal additive effects are not the main determinants of Iberian piglet perinatal mortality.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Dec 2017
Muñoz M, Rodríguez M C, García-Cortes L A, González A, García-Casco J M, Silió L
Abstract excerpt
Data of 127,800 Iberian piglets were used to study genetic parameters of mortality at birth at the piglet level. These records proceed from three data sets: 4,987 litter of 2,156 sows of a dam line, 2,768 litter of 817 sows of a complete diallel cross between four Iberian strains and 7,153 litter of 2,113 sows of the Torbiscal composite line. Perinatal mortality was considered as a binary trait, and Bayesian...
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