ABSTRACT The Karnal bunt pathogen, Tilletia indica, is heterothallic and depends on encounters on wheat spikes between airborne secondary sporidia of different mating types for successful infection and reproduction. This life history characteristic results in reduced reproductive success for lower population densities. Such destabilizing density dependence at low population levels has been desc...

In this study production, reproduction, population, management and economic parameters resulted from recording of 7 flocks with size 57 to 400 and 721 heads of camels in a cycle of reproduction, during three years from 2011 to 2013 were used to find out of the economic values of important traits in one hump camel in desert areas rearing system. The economic traits that appeared in profit equati...

the aim of this study was using bayesian approach via gibbs sampling (gs) for estimating genetic parameters of production, reproduction and health traits in iranian holstein cows. data consisted of 320666 first- lactation records of holstein cows from 7696 sires and 260302 dams collected by the animal breeding center of iran from year 1991 to 2010. (co) variance components were estimated using ...

This study was undertaken to estimate the genetic parameters for some reproduction traits in Sistani beef cattle. The data set consisted of 1489 records of number of insemination, calving, and insemination dates in different calving was used. Reproduction traits including calving interval (CI), gestation length (GL), days open (DO), calving to first service (CTFS), first service to conception (...

The present investigation aimed to conduct a genetic study of dairy cattle and buffalo bulls based on economic traits and their phenotypic correlation. The means of various economic traits in both the species are presented. Cattle bulls reported a better libido score, Flehmen response, requirement of mounting stimulus and semen volume, conception rate and expected predicted difference for milk ...

the present investigation aimed to conduct a genetic study of dairy cattle and buffalo bulls based on economic traits and their phenotypic correlation. the means of various economic traits in both the species are presented. cattle bulls reported a better libido score, flehmen response, requirement of mounting stimulus and semen volume, conception rate and expected predicted difference for milk ...

What mechanisms underlie aging? One theory, the wear-and-tear model, attributes aging to progressive deterioration in the molecular and cellular machinery which eventually lead to death through the disruption of physiological homeostasis. The second suggests that life span is genetically programmed, and aging may be derived from intrinsic processes which enforce a non-random, terminal time inte...

Reproduction is a key profit driver in beef cattle production systems around the world. However genetic evaluation for reproduction traits is generally limited or non-existent. This is likely a function of low levels of recording reproduction traits, and low heritabilities. Traditional BLUP based genetic evaluations have been used effectively in beef for generating estimated breeding values and...

Genetic correlations between purebred Duroc (DU), Large White (LW) and Landrace (LR) pigs and their crossbreds LW×LR, LR×LW, DU×(LW×LR) and DU×(LR×LW) were estimated for production and reproduction traits. Performance test and litter records from Government pig breeding stations in Thailand were used. REML bivariate animal models were used to estimate genetic correlations for each trait measure...