Data growth records relative to 2004 Nellore breed calves, from Ceará and Piauí states, were used to study the influence of environmental effects and to estimate the heritability of the weight traits at the 365 days (yearling) and 550 days (post-yearling) of age. The variance components were estimated by the restricted maximum likelihood method. In the analysis of variance a model that included the fixed effects of sex, year and season and herd of birth, and the age of dam […]

The effects of genetic and environmental factors on reproductive traits, from 475 records of calving interval (CI) and 401 of real fertility (RF) of Nellore cows reared at Santa Inês county, Maranhão State, in pasture grazing system with supplementation in the dry season, from 1980 to 1994, were studied. The data were analyzed by means of linear models, which included the sire effect (random effects), month and year of the last and the actual calving, calving number and sex of […]

The objective of this work was to present a reparametrization of a means deviation model from contemporary groups up to an unrestricted animal model (Lush’s mixed model equations – LMME). Applying restrictions on the LMME, the animal model was obtained in accordance with Henderson (Henderson’s mixed model equations – HMME). To obtain the HMME, restrictions of the type were imposed and these demanded the necessity of unrealistic assumptions, as the absence of selection, so that the HMME properties could be […]

Data simulated with five levels of pedigree errors (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20%) and three heritabilities (.10, .30 and .60) were used to verify the effect of pedigree errors on the selection during 10 generations. The largest phenotypic values and efficiency on the individual selection, in overall, were obtained by BLUP without errors, followed by those with 5, 10, 15 and 20% of error. The average superiority in genetic gain of the BLUP per generation, in the various error […]

The objective of this work was to estimate minimum sample size (n) of animals to detect significant differences (D) among monthly replicate evaluations of scrotal circumference from animals of the Nellore breed, from 10 to 30 months of age, considered as 21 evaluation conditions or repeated measurements (treatments). The value of n that allows to detect the D among means when each subject is observed for t > 2 treatments, was obtained by means of the Statistical Analysis System – […]

With the objective to determine the combining ability of broiler matrix lines by means of factor analysis, single crosses (full diallel) within female lines (PP, KK and VV) were used. The evaluated traits were egg numbers from the 24th-32nd(P1), 32nd-40th(P2), 40th-48th (P3), 48th-56th (P4), 56th-64th (P5), 22nd-66th (P6), 32nd-66th (P7)), 40th-66th (P8), 48th-66th(P9), 24th-40th (P10), 24th-48th (P11)) and 24th-56th (P12) week of age. In the factor analysis, two factors were used, with the meaning biological factor defined after the factor […]

The data used in this study are results of the evaluations of crosses among European breeds and Nellore breed. The data regarding to the weaning weight of 883 calves resulted from six mating groups involving crosses of Simental, Charolais and Chianina breeds with Nellore, backcrosses and pure Nellore, were used. The weaning weights were adjusted for cow and calf ages and contemporary group (formed by the combination of year and season of birth and sex) to estimate direct and maternal […]

Previous and present days open were fit simultaneously as fixed effects in a sire model for 305 day milk production (L305) containing yet the fixed effects of herd-year-season, level of Holstein blood, age of cow as covariant (up to 3rd degree) and the random effects of sire and cow. A relationship matrix including the bull, his sire and his dam was used. The same model without age of cow was used for 305-day mature age equivalent milk yield (PROAJU). The […]

Predicted transmitting ability (PTA) of milk yield of 529 sires using animal model (MA), sire model (MT) and herdmate contemporary comparison method (MCR) were calculated and compared by means of correlation’s rank and values, reliability, differences among PTA and percent of coincidence in the selection of the best bulls. Two sets of data were considered one contained up to five lactation per cow and other with production data at first lactation. Data of 12,762 lactations of 5757 Gyr and crossbred […]

Simulated populations were used to verify the effect of errors in the selection of males in the estimates of genetic gains along ten generations of selection, using BLUP. Five levels of errors in the selection of males (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20%) and three heritabilites (.10, .30 e .60) were used. Twenty males and 200 females were selected by BLUP. After the selection of 20 males in each generation, 1, 2, 3 and 4 sires were changed by others […]