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/2007
Maira Mattar, João Ademir de Oliveira, Sarah Laguna Meirelles, Sandra Aidar de Queiroz
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982007000900009
Scrotal circumference (SC) is a trait of economic importance because it is related to reproduction and sexual precocity of males and females. This research aimed to evaluate the effects of yearling age (YA) and weight at 15 months of age (W15) on measures of SC using 1.892 records of Caracu young males. Two different models were compared. Both models included the contemporary group (CG) effect, but differed by using YA as a covariate (linear and quadratic components) in model 1 […]
Keywords: bayesian inference; heritability; sexual precocity; weight at 15 months of age; yearling age