Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:59:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-12-01; The objective of this study was to evaluate the effective number of founders and ancestors, generation intervals and completeness of pedigree in Jaffarabadi breed buffaloes raised in Brazil. Pedigree records of 1,272 animals born from 1966 were used. The parameters were estimated using ENDOG, computatio...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:59:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-12-01; Quantitative analysis of growth genetic parameters is not available for many breeds of buffaloes making selection and breeding decisions an empirical process that lacks robustness. The objective of this study was to estimate heritability for birth weight (BW), weight at 205 days (W205) and 365 days (W36...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:59:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-12-01; The objective of the study was to estimate heritability and repeatability for milk yield (MY) and lactation length (LL) in buffaloes using Bayesian inference. The Brazilian genetic improvement program of buffalo provided the data that included 628 females, from four herds, born between 1980 and 2003. In...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:59:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-12-01; The major aim of this study was to evaluate the inbreeding (F), average relatedness coefficient (AR) and effective population size (Ne) in the Jaffarabadi buffalo breed from Brazil. Pedigree information of 1,272 animals born from 1966 was used. The effective population size was calculated in two ways: f...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:59:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-12-01; The aim of this study was to estimate genetic, environmental and phenotypic correlation between birth weight (BW) and weight at 205 days age (W205), BW and weight at 365 days age (W365) and W205-W365, using Bayesian inference. The Brazilian Program for Genetic Improvement of Buffaloes provided the data ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T18:59:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-12-01; The objective of the study was to estimate heritability for calving interval (CI) and age at first calving (AFC) and also calculate repeatability for CI in buffaloes using Bayesian inference. The Brazilian Buffaloes Genetic Improvement Program provided the database. Data consists on information from 628...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:00:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-01-01; The goal of the present study was to analyze the endogamy of Murrah buffaloes over 5 generations in 10 Brazilian herds. Pedigree information of 5,062 animals born from 1972 on were used. The mean endogamy coefficient and the percentage of endogamic animals increased from 0.33 and 1.31% in the second gen...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:00:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-01-01; The genetic divergence of 30 buffalo sires were evaluated based on their expected offspring differences regarding the development characteristics using the multivaried analysis. Six similar genetic groups were obtained. It was also identified the genotype that presented dissimilarity for matings that ai...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:49:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-12-01; Twenty six Murrah female river buffaloes, between 45 and 70 d post-partum, empty, multiparae, with an average live weight of 675 ± 56 kg, and average body condition of 3.5 points, in a 1 to 5 scale, were used to determine the concentrations of glucose, cholesterol, total protein and insulin-like growth ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:12:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-12-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); The aim of the present study was to evaluate the selection of X chromosome of buffaloes sperm with Percoll gradients. The stock solution of Percoll was prepared in the proportion of 1:11 (1 part of Percoll:11 parts of a solution conta...