adjusted milk yield for 305 days and two milking times along with actual first lactation records of 187138 holstein cows were used to find out the effect of record adjustment on variance components estimation and on genetic evaluation. records had been gathered by the animal breeding center of iran during years 1991 to 2006. the pedigree file included 288032 animals. a single animal model with ...

Pangolins are unique placental mammals with eight species existing in the world, which have adapted to a highly specialized diet of ants and termites, and are of significance in the control of forest termite disaster. Besides their ecological value, pangolins are extremely important economic animals with the value as medicine and food. At present, illegal hunting and habitat destruction have dr...

productive and reproductive traits have great importance in international dairy cattle breeding objectives. production, reproduction (days open and calving interval) and pedigree data of iranian holstein dairy cattles were collected between 2002 and 2012 from 47 herds in isfahan province. the data set consisted of 30179 records from 18837 registered iranianholstein dairy cattles. single trait r...

KULIG, H., K. ŻUKOWSKI, I. KOWALEWSKA-ŁUCZAK and P. ŁAKOMY, 2016. SCD1 polymorphism and breeding value for milk production traits in cows. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 22: 131–134 The aim of this study was to estimate the associations between the g.10153G>A polymorphism and the breeding values for milk production traits (milk, fat and protein yield, fat and protein content) in Polish Holstein-Friesian...

Although common datasets are an important resource for the scientific community and can be used to address important questions, genomic datasets of a meaningful size have not generally been available in livestock species. We describe a pig dataset that PIC (a Genus company) has made available for comparing genomic prediction methods. We also describe genomic evaluation of the data using methods...

BACKGROUND Genomic selection (GS) is a recent selective breeding method which uses predictive models based on whole-genome molecular markers. Until now, existing studies formulated GS as the problem of modeling an individual's breeding value for a particular trait of interest, i.e., as a regression problem. To assess predictive accuracy of the model, the Pearson correlation between observed and...

Productive and reproductive traits have great importance in international dairy cattle breeding objectives. Production, reproduction (days open and calving interval) and pedigree data of Iranian Holstein dairy cattles were collected between 2002 and 2012 from 47 herds in Isfahan province. The data set consisted of 30179 records from 18837 registered IranianHolstein dairy cattles. Single trait r...

BACKGROUND Genomic breeding value estimation is the key step in genomic selection. Among many approaches, BLUP methods and Bayesian methods are most commonly used for estimating genomic breeding values. Here, we applied two BLUP methods, TABLUP and GBLUP, and three Bayesian methods, BayesA, BayesB and BayesCπ, to the common dataset provided by the 15th QTL-MAS Workshop to evaluate and compare t...

Continuous genetic evaluation of dairy cattle with test-day models is desired in Finland. However, the computing time for the genetic evaluation is 4 d and exceeds the minimum of a weekend. Three parallel implementations of the preconditioned conjugate gradient iterative solver were programmed and compared to identify the best strategy for solving mixed model equations using parallel computing....