Inheritance of Flystrike Recorded in a Non-Seasonal Rainfall Environment

Title
Inheritance of Flystrike Recorded in a Non-Seasonal Rainfall Environment
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Bird-Gardiner, Tracie L
Brown, Daniel
Smith, J L
Mortimer, S I
Editor
Editor(s): Nicolas Lopez Villalobos
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
UNE publication id
une:14044
Abstract
Flystrike records from the Sheep CRC Information Nucleus Flock (IN) were evaluated to assess the influence of sex, birth and rearing type, dam age and sire and dam breed on yearling breech and non-breech strike. Heritability of breech and non-breech strike was estimated under a range of different models, on data comprising records from progeny of three genotypes, namely Merino, Maternal-Merino and Terminal cross, run in a variable non-seasonal rainfall environment. Observed heritability estimates ranged from 0.30 ± 0.10 to 0.43 ± 0.13 for breech strike and 0.16 ± 0.06 to 0.32 ± 0.16 for non-breech strike across genotypes and models. Heritability estimates for both traits on the underlying scale were all high (>0.6), with large standard errors. Flystrike was found to have a similar heritability to estimates obtained in other environments. The identification of key indicator traits for non-seasonal rainfall environments is warranted.
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Citation
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v.20, p. 183-186
ISSN
1328-3227
ISBN
9780473260569
Start page
183
End page
186

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