Heritabilities and genetic correlations of body condition score and muscularity with productive traits and their trend functions in Italian Simmental cattle

Heritabilities and genetic correlations of body condition score and muscularity with productive traits and their trend functions in Italian Simmental cattle

With the aim to study the genetics of energy and muscle balance in the Italian Simmental breed, the objectives of this study were: i) the estimation of the genetic parameters for body condition score (BCS) and muscularity (MU) score; ii) the estimation of genetic correlations of BCS and MU with prod...

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Main Authors: Erika Frigo, Antonia B. Samorè, Daniele Vicario, Alessandro Bagnato, Ottavia Pedron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013-05-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
Subjects:
Body condition
Muscularity
Simmental cattle
Genetic correlation
Management
Online Access:http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/2807

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