Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4554
Title: Relationships among temperament and production traits of pigs
Contributor(s): Hansson, Anna (author); Crump, Ronald Edward  (author); Graser, Hans Ulrich  (author); Sokolinski, R (author)
Publication Date: 2005
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4554
Abstract: Measures of temperament and production traits were analysed from 4,879 nucleus pigs. Genetic parameters for flight time (FT), standard deviation of multiple weights recorded over 20 seconds (SDWT), average daily gain (ADG), back fat (BF) and muscle depth (MD) were estimated. Flight time (0.20 ± 0.04) and SDWT (0.11 ± 0.03) were both heritable and negatively genetically correlated (-0.46 ± 0.14). Both temperament traits had favourable low to moderate genetic correlations with ADG, positive and negative respectively (FT: 0.21 ± 0.16; SDWT: -0.29 ± 0.19), but had unfavourable correlations with BF (FT: 0.26 ± 0.11; SDWT: -0.22 ± 0.14) of a similar magnitude. The genetic relationships between FT and SDWT with MD were negligible. All genetic correlation estimates had large standard errors. The results indicate that further research into FT and SDWT for pigs could lead to their use as selection criteria.
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: AAABG 2005: 16th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Noosa Lakes, Australia, 25th - 28th September, 2005
Source of Publication: Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v.16, p. 141-144
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Place of Publication: Armidale, Australia
ISSN: 1328-3227
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 070201 Animal Breeding
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 830308 Pigs
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: E1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13321110
http://www.aaabg.org/livestocklibrary/2005/141hansson.pdf
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