Author:
RAHNEFELD G. W.,GARNETT I.
Abstract
Recurrent mass selection for post-weaning average daily gain was practiced for 11 generations in a population of Lacombe swine. Response to selection was assessed from predicted response, 0.241 ± 0.023 kg; observed response, 0.146 ± 0.018 kg; estimated heritability, 0.327 ± 0.031; and realized heritability, 0.198 ± 0.016. Observed response was estimated to be 0.61 of the predicted. Examination of additive genetic variance, selection differentials, drift variance, inbreeding and regression of post-weaning average daily gain on generation time indicated that the pedigreed Yorkshire control population served as an adequate control. Gene effects were not found to be dependent on the sex of the organism as assessed by the genetic correlation between sexes, covariance between half-sib family means and the relative magnitude of parent–offspring-based estimates of heritability.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Food Animals
Cited by
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