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/2004
Joslaine Noely dos Santos Gonçalves Cyrillo, Maurício Mello de Alencar, Alexander George Razook, Maria Eugênia Zerlotti Mercadante, Leopoldo Andrade de Figueiredo
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982004000600007
Genetic parameters for weights (17, 942 records), obtained in intervals of 60 days, from the birth to selection (378 days of age), of 2,582 males of the Nellore breed was estimated in univariate analyses by the Maximum Restricted Likelihood method. The models of analysis models included the fixed effects of contemporary groups, month of birth, mother age and age when the weights were collected as covariate. Three models differing in random effects were tested: the model 1 (M1) was adjusted […]
Keywords: beef cattle; heritability; maternal effects; repeated records; subsequent ages; variance components
01/Jul/2002
Maria Eugênia Zerlotti Mercadante, Irineu Umberto Packer, Alexander George Razook, Claudio Manoel Rodrigues de Melo, Joslaine Noely dos Santos Gonçalves Cyrillo, Leopoldo Andrade de Figueiredo
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982002000700015
Genetic parameters for days to calving were estimated using a random regression model, with orthogonal polynomials of age at breeding season (in years) as covariable. The records of days to calving (4,118) came from 929 cows from three experimental Nelore herds, been the selection and traditional herds selected for higher yearling weight and the control herd selected for the mean of yearling weight. Genetic and permanent environmental variances were described by a fourth order polynomial function, with 9 measures of […]
Keywords: beef cattle; covariance functions; repeated records; reproductive performance