Importance and variability of the paternal component in sow reproductive traits.

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Reproductive traits are an integral part of the goals of the breeding programs that contribute to the economic success of production. Reproductive phenotypes such as litter size, number of piglets born alive, or litter weight at birth are mainly attributed to females. Thus, the maternal components can be found by default in quantitative genetics' animal models. Still, paternal contribution to variance components...

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