In dairy cattle breeding, there is a clear trend toward the use of only few high-yielding breeds. One main reason that efficient breeding programs require certain population size. Since some numerically small breeds are well known for their functional traits, they might be an interesting crossing partner with aim to utilize heterosis. This simulation study investigated transition period impleme...

On the basis of stream power, the phenomena including regime channel establishment and river meandering can be studied. So, previous researchers have suggested and developed the stream power theory and believed that stream power minimization affects these phenomena. In this paper, the stream power theory and a criterion for meandering river modeling will be studied. Then the conclusion of case ...

Postweaning data on 643 rabbits from 122 litters representing four breed types, New Zealand White (NZW) and Californian (CAL) purebreds, CAL X NZW (CXN), and Flemish Giant (FG) crossbreds (the latter group was a collection of FG X CAL, FG X Champagne D'Argent [CHA], and 1/2 FG X 1/4 CAL X 1/4 CHA), were gathered over five seasons and compared for growth, feed efficiency, and survival-related pe...

Frozen-thawed spermatozoa collected from a beef bull (Japanese Black) were used for in vitro fertilization (IVF) of matured oocytes obtained from dairy (Holstein) and beef (Japanese Black) females. Embryos were examined for fertilization, cleavage rate, interval between insemination and blastocyst production (experiment I), total cell number per embryo and sex ratio during blastocyst formation ...