Different mating types were evaluated, through simulated data, in populations submitted to selection based on BLUP, during fifty generations. It was considered one quantitative trait with heritability of 0,10. The selected populations had the following data structure: mating ratio values: 10, 20, 25, and 50, numbers of selected males by generation: 10, 5, 4, and 2, and effective population sizes: 36,36, 19,05, 15,38 and 7,84, respectively. In each mating ratio value, the populations were coupled according one of the mating […]

Genealogies of 2070 animals and records from the first five lactations of 1406 cows of the Mantiqueira type cattle, daughters of 113 sires, were analyzed to estimate the frequency of inbred animals, the inbreeding average per generation and the possible effect of inbreeding increase on reproductive and productive traits. The evaluated traits were age at first calving (IPP), calving intervals (IDP), total milk production (PL) and lactation period (DL). Models for PL, IDP and DL included the fixed effects of […]

Inbreeding effects on calving interval (CI), birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and on the direct and maternal breeding values for BW were evaluated in a purebred Brown Swiss herd raised in northeast Brazil. Data were collected from 1946 to 1993. Inbreeding coefficients (F) were estimated according to Wright method using the MTDFREML package. Breeding values were predicted by a BLUP animal model that included fixed effects of sex, month and year of birth, parity of dam and direct and […]

This research was carried out to evaluate the inbreeding effects and its possible influence on the beef cattle growth. Data with 27,406 observations of weaning weight, standardized to 205 (WW), and 14,317 observations of yearling weight, standardized to 365 days (YW), from Gyr breed animals, from 1970 to 1995, were used. The analysis were made using the least square method that included the random effect of contemporary group and the fixed effects of generation (class), age of cow at calving, […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the inbreeding on the birth weight (BW) and the weights at the 8 (W8), 12 (W12), 18 (W18) and 24 (W24) month of age, from a Guzera breed herd. The data collected from 1978 to 1992 were obtained from the animal record control of the Fazenda de Ensino e Pesquisa do Campus de Ilha Solteira, UNESP, and referred to the weights, in the above sequence of 2435, 1882, 1770, […]