Free communications animal genetics

Date: 06 June ‘05; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Elise Norberg (DK)

Theatre

• Are time-budgets of dairy cows affected by genetic improvement of milk yield?
  (Løvendahl, P. and L. Munksgaard)
• Estimates of genetic parameters for milkability from automatic milking
  (Gäde, S., E. Stamer, W. Junge and E. Kalm)

• Genetic parameters for conception rate and days open in Holsteins
  (Tsuruta, S., I. Misztal and T.J. Lawlor)

• When to farrow? Genetic correlation between gestation length and piglet survival
  (Rydhmer, L. and N. Lundeheim)

• A method to define sustainable breeding goals for livestock breeding programmes
  (Nielsen, H.M. and L.G. Christensen)

• Validation of an approximate multitrait model for prediction of breeding values in dairy cattle - a stochastic simulation study
  (Lassen, J., M.K. Sørensen and P. Madsen)

• Another useful reparameterisation to obtain samples from conditional inverse Wishart distributions (Korsgaard, I.R., A.H. Andersen, P. Madsen and J. Ødegård)

• Properties of random regression models using linear splines (Misztal, I.)

• Genetic improvement in broilers using indirect carcass measurements (Zerehdaran, S., A.L.J. Vereijken, H. Bovenhuis, J.A.M. van Arendonk and E.H. van der Waaij)

• Base populations in fish breeding programs: a simulation study (Holtsmark, M., J.A. Woolliams, A.K. Sonesson and G. Klemetsdal)

Poster

• Evaluation of heterosis, general and special combining ability for some biological characters in six silkworm lines
  (Qotbi, A., A.R. Seidavi, M.R. Gholami and A.R. Bizhannia)

• Non-additive breed effects on milk production in cattle
  (Wolf, J., L. Zavadilová and E. Nemcová)

• Estimates of genetic parameters of final weight at slaughter, yield grade and marbling scores in beef cattle
  (Márquez, A.P., A. Correa, J.F. Ponce, L. Avendaño and S.C. Ochoa)

• Genetic parameters for type traits of Brazilian Holstein cattle
  (Costa, C.N., J.A. Cobuci, A.F. Freitas, N.M. Teixeira, R.B. Barra and A.A. Valloto)

• Effect of genetic potential for immunocompetence on vaccination efficiency in broilers (Ask, B.)

• A PC program to analyse the genetic and environmental trends in the Italian Holstein dairy herds (Biffani, S., F. Canavesi and M. Marusi)

• Gene flow in animal genetic resources: a study on status, impacts, trends from exchange of breeding animals (Musavaya, K. and A. Valle Zárate)

• Optimization of the Bavarian PIG Testing and Breeding Scheme (Habier, D. and L. Dempfle)

• Genetic variability of growth traits in performance testing of bulls (Bogdanovic, V., R. Djedovic and P. Perisic)

• Genetic analysis of the fertility in Hanoverian Warmblood horses (Hamann, H., H. Sieme and O. Distl)

• Genetic relationship between different measures of feed efficiency and its component traits in Wagyu (Japanese Black) bulls (Hoque M.A, T. Kunieda and T. Oikawa)

• Genetic and environmental relationships between milk yields at different parts of lactation in Iranian Holsteins (Farhangfar, H. and H. Naeemipour)

• Non-genetic influence on test day milk and fat yields data of Moroccan Holstein-friesian cows (Tijani, A.)

• Genetic parameters of fur coat and reproduction traits for Polish arctic foxes (Wierzbicki, H. and W. Jagusiak)

• Effect of mating ratio on response for a selection index (Campo, J.L., S.G. Dávila and I. Pena)

• An investigation on the erythrocyte potassium polymorphism and relation between several Mohair characteristics in Angora Goat (Soysal, M.I., E.K. Gürcan, E. Özkan, M. Aytac and S. Özkan)

• Genetic parameters for carcass traits of field progeny and their relations with feed efficiency traits of their sire population for Japanese Black cattle (Hoque M.A, T, Oikawa and K. Hiramoto)

• Genetic parameters of body weights and carcass traits in two quail strains (Vali, N., M.A. Edriss, H.R. Rahmani and A. Samie)

• Weaning performance of Hungarian Grey Calves (Nagy, B., Z. Lengyel, I. Bodó, I. Gera, M. Török and F. Szabó)

• Polymorphism detection in bovine Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) locus by means of microarray analysis
  (Conte, G., B. Castiglioni, M. Mele, A. Serra, S. Chessa, G. Pagnacco and P. Secchiari)

• Value of traits in beef cattle breeding
  (Pribyl, J., P. Safus, J. Pribylova, L. Stadník, M. Stipkova, Z. Vesela and M. Wofova)

• New microsatellites assignment using a hamster-sheep cell hybrid panel
  (Tabet-Aoul, N., R. Ait-Yahia, A. Derrar, N. Boushaba and N. Saidi-Mehtar)

• General combining ability estimates in silkworm inbreed lines (Bombyx mori l.)
  (Dinita, G., C. Antonescu, A. Marmandiu and M. Tudorache)

• Algebraical and geometrical interpretation of restricted best linear unbiased prediction of breeding values
  (Satoh, M. and M. Takeya)

• Direct genetic, maternal genetic and common environmental effects on Landrace and Duroc piglet growth
  (Suzuki, K., H. Kadowaki, T. Shibata, H. Uchida and A. Nishida)

• Simulation of multiple trait data for testing breeding value estimation programs
  (Wensch-Dorendorf, M., H.H. Swalve and J. Wensch)

• Estimation of the milk urea course during lactation (Nemcová, E., M. Stipkova, F. Jílek and M. Krejcová)

• Estimates of genetic parameters for reproduction and production traits of purebred Berkshire in Japan (Tomiyama, M., T. Oikawa, T. Sano, T. Arakane and H. Mori)

• Non-genetic factors effect on body weights and grease fleece weight in Loribakhtiary sheep flock (Asadi-khoshoei, E. and R. Miraei-Ashtiani)

• Genetic parameters of calving interval in Japanese Holstein (Sasaki, O., M. Aihara, K. Hagiya, K. Ishii and Y. Nagamine)

• Estimation of genetic parameters for early growth traits in the Fat-tailed Lori-Bakhtiary lambs
  (Asadi-khoshoei, E.)

• Prediction of the genetic progress applying embryo transfer into the breeding programs in cattle
  (Marmandiu, A., M. Nedelcu, M. Pîrvu, G. Dinita and I. Raducuta)

• Genetics of size traits, fur quality traits and litter size in blue fox
  (Peura, J., I. Strandén and E.A. Mäntysaari)

• Effect of small-herd clustering on the genetic connectedness of the Portuguese Holstein cattle population (Vasconcelos, J. and J. Carvalheira)

• The interdependence of some morphological traits in Frasinet carp breed
  (Nicolae, C., L.D. Urdes and I. Cringanu)

• Impact of pedigree errors on the genetic gain in a dairy cattle population (Sanders, K., J. Bennewitz and E. Kalm)

• Modelling post-weaning growth of the Avileña Negra-Ibérica beef cattle breed under commercial using random regression (Díaz, C., A. Moreno, A.M. Serrano and M.J. Carabaño)

• Responses to seven generations of selection for ovulation rate or prenatal survival in Large White pigs
  (Rosendo, A., J. Gogué, T. Druet and J.P. Bidanel)

• New nucleotide sequence polymorphism within 5’noncoding region of the bovine receptor estrogen α (ERα) gene (Szreder, T. and L. Zwierzchowski)

• Effect of breeding value of bulls and performance traits of their daughters
  (Sitkowska, B. and S. Mroczkowski)

• Influence of paternal country origin on chosen performance traits of their daughters
  (Sitkowska, B. and S. Mroczkowski)

• Carcass analysis in Japanese quail lines divergently selected for shape of growth curve
  (Hyánková, L., J. Lastovková and Z. Szebestová)

• Evaluation of imported gene, direct and maternal heterosis, and estimation of genetic parameter and in the Iranian crossbred dairy cattle population (Ghorbani, A., S. Miraii Ashtiani and M. Moradi Shahrebabak)

• Estimation of genetic parameters of growth traits in Golpayegan calves (Harighi, M.F.)

• Selection Indices and sub indices for improvement milk composition traits in Friesian cattle in Egypt
  (Hussein, A.M., M.N. El-Arian, A.S. Khattab, E.A. Omer and F.H. Farrag)

• The genetic and environmental effects on milk yield and fat percentage in Isfahan dairy farms (Babaei, M.)