The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Nov/2008
Leandro Barbosa, Paulo Sávio Lopes, Adair José Regazzi, Robledo de Almeida Torres, Mário Luiz Santana Junior, Renata Veroneze
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982008001100007
Data from the first four parities of Large White pigs were used to estimate (co)variance components and genetic parameters for litter size (LS) in single trait and multi-trait analyses. The (co)variance components and genetic parameters were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood using the MTDFREML program. LS in each parity was considered a different trait and the models included contemporary group as fixed effect and additive direct genetic and residual as random effects. Heritability estimates of LS in different parities in […]
Keywords: genetic correlation; heritability; litter size at birth; repeatability model; reproductive traits