Genetic and Environmental Relationships among Economic Characters in Beef Cattle. II. Correlations between Offspring and Dam and Offspring and Sire
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- 1 August 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Animal Science
- Vol. 14 (3) , 786-791
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ansci/14.3.786
Abstract
Records on 4234 dam-offspring pairs and on 85 sire-offspring groups were used in estimating the correlations among characters and the correlations between parent and offspring for various economic traits in beef cattle. Heritability estimates calculated from the regression of offspring on dam and progeny average on sire were .44 and .35 for birth weight, .11 and .25 for weaning weight, .07 and .17 for gain from birth to weaning, .16 and .15 for weaning score, .43 (offspring-dam) for fall yearling weight, .18 for gain from weaning to fall yearling age, and .14 for fall yearling score.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Genetic and Environmental Relationships among Economic Characters in Beef Cattle. I. Correlation among Paternal and Maternal Half-SibsJournal of Animal Science, 1955
- The Estimation of Heritability by Regression of Offspring on ParentPublished by JSTOR ,1953