Genetic parameter estimation for long endurance trials in the Uruguayan Criollo horse

Autor: R.D. López-Correa, G. Rovere, J. I. Urioste, Francisco Peñagaricano
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: López-Correa, R D, Peñagaricano, F, Rovere, G & Urioste, J I 2018, ' Genetic parameter estimation for long endurance trials in the Uruguayan Criollo horse ', Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, vol. 135, no. 3, pp. 186-193 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12324
DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12324
Popis: The aim of this study was to estimate the genetic parameters of performance in a 750-km, 15-day ride in Criollo horses. Heritability (h2) and maternal lineage effects (mt2) were obtained for rank, a relative placing measure of performance. Additive genetic and maternal lineage (rmt) correlations among five medium-to-high intensity phase ranks (pRK) and final rank (RK) were also estimated. Individual records from 1,236 Criollo horses from 1979 to 2012 were used. A multivariate threshold animal model was applied to the pRK and RK. Heritability was moderate to low (0.156-0.275). Estimates of mt2 were consistently low (0.04-0.06). Additive genetic correlations between individual pRK and RK were high (0.801-0.924), and the genetic correlations between individual pRKs ranged from 0.763 to 0.847. The pRK heritabilities revealed that some phases were explained by a greater additive component, whereas others showed stronger genetic relationships with RK. Thus, not all pRK may be considered as similar measures of performance in competition.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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