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/Dec/2009
Haroldo Henrique de Rezende Neves, Roberto Carvalheiro, Luiz Alberto Fries, Sandra Aidar de Queiroz
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982009001200011
Stochastic simulation was carried out to access the consequences of combined use of assortative mating and sexed semen in a beef cattle population under selection. Six generations of selection were simulated under three different scenarios of mating strategy and sexed semen use. The first was characterized by random mating and no use of sexed semen. The second was simulated using positive assortative mating (PAM) for the 40% top dams and negative assortative mating (NAM) for the remainder, with no use […]
Keywords: negative assortative mating; positive assortative mating; selection; stochastic simulation