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A note on the heritability of litter traits in pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

G. S. Strang  and
C. Smith
G. S. Strang
Affiliation:
ARC Animal Breeding Research Organisation, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JQ
C. Smith
Affiliation:
ARC Animal Breeding Research Organisation, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JQ
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Abstract

Estimates of heritability for 9 litter traits were derived from data on 38 000 Large White and 35 000 Landrace litters by daughter-dam regression (parities 1 to 5) and by a three-level nested half-sib analysis (parities 1 to 3). The regression and half-sib heritability estimates were similar and overall the estimates were quite low, averaging 7% across traits and breeds. This is in general agreement with estimates from two other large-scale European analyses of field data. Some other reports, including lesser experimental material, show rather higher heritability values.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , June 1979 , pp. 403 - 406
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1979

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