Genetic Parameters and Correlations Between Growth Traits and Packed Cell Volume of N’dama Cattle in the Gambia

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The evolution of body weight under the natural trypanosome challenge and its association with disease tolerance to trypanosomosis is of utmost economic importance in cattle. This study estimated heritability for growth traits and packed cell volume (PCV) and their genetic correlations in the N’Dama cattle in the Gambia. A total of 2,488, 2,442, 1,471, 1,934, and 1,452 bodyweight records...

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• Bayes Theorem
• Body Weight
• Meat
• Quantitative Trait, Heritable
• Scrotum
• Testis
• Weaning
• Weight Gain

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Literature Corpus work

4dd748ed-75dc-5121-9e24-c89917e5e9b6

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-4625109/v1