No 37 (2007)

Proceedings of the 2007 Interbull meeting

Dublin, Ireland, August 23-25 2007

Table of Contents

Articles

Preface PDF
F Fikse
Development of conversion formulae for traits related to beef production in Ireland PDF
T. Pabiou, M Laval, J Guerrier 3
New developments in beef cattle genetic evaluation in Australia PDF
D J Johnston, H-U Graser, B Tier 8
AGBU's approach to across-country genetic evaluation for beef cattle PDF
K Donoghue, H-U Graser, D J Johnston, B Tier 12
Report from the workshop in Paris PDF
F Forabosco, V Palucci, W F Fikse 16
Measuring the impact of change in selection indexes, old ways are best PDF
E P Cunningham, H Täubert 21
Genotype by housing interaction in Danish Holsteins PDF
T Mark, J Lassen 26
Genetic relationships in the Holstein cow population in three major dairy countries PDF
R Mrode, F Kearney, S Biffani, M Coffey, F Canavesi 29
Genomic measures of relationship and inbreeding PDF
P M VanRaden 33
Bayesian approach to integrate molecular data into genetic evaluations PDF
N Gengler, C Verkenne 37
Legendre polynomials versus linear splines in the Canadian test-day model PDF
J Bohmanova, J Jamrozik, F Miglior, I Misztal, P G Sullivan 42
Genetic parameters of butter hardness estimated by test-day model PDF
H Soyeurt, F Dehareng, C Bertozzi, N Gengler 49
Impact of new genetic parameters from a three trait model on the Italian Holstein genetic evaluation for production PDF
F Canavesi, S Biffani, E L Nicolazzi 54
Pre-adjusting data for the shape of the lactation curves in test-day model PDF
H Leclerc, D Duclos, A Barbat, T Druet, V Ducrocq 57
Genetic evaluations of lactation persistency for Italian Simmental cows based on multivariate principal component analysis PDF
D Vicario, A Cappio-Borlino, L Degano, N Macciotta 62
Experiences with Interbull test IV: estimation of genetic variance PDF
M. Lidauer, K Vuori, I Strandén, E A Mäntysaari 69
Mendelian sample mining and cluster monitoring of national genetic evaluation data with the AGELI software platform PDF
P Tsimpos, S Diplaris, P A Mitkas, G Banos 73
MTEDC software available for standardized EDC calculations PDF
P G Sullivan 78
Generalization of the information source method to compute reliabilities in test models PDF
V Ducrocq, M del P. Schneider 82
Calculation of accuracies of EBV using sampling in a large multiple breed data set PDF
J M Hickey, H A Mulder, D I Wilhelmus, I Strandén, R F Veerkamp 88
Milkability and temperament MACE correlation and pilot study results in dairy cattle populations PDF
A Bagnato, A Rossoni, C. Nicoletti, J Jakobsen, E Santus 95
Parameter estimation of longevity and type traits from France and Germany with a single trait MACE model PDF
J Tarres, Z Liu, V Ducrocq, F Reinhardt, R Reents 98
Optimum use of MACE information to predict composite type traits PDF
F Miglior, P G Sullivan, B J Van Doormal 102
Principal components analysis for conformation traits in international sire evaluations PDF
M del P. Schneider, W F Fikse 107
Prospects of performing multiple-country comparison of dairy sires for countries not participating in Interbull international genetic evaluations PDF
A Torsell, H Jorjani, W F Fikse 111
Effect of genomic selection on national and international genetic evaluations PDF
S van der Beek 115
Preliminary evaluation of sire fertility in Ireland PDF
R Evans, S Coughlan, D Berry 121
Preliminary genetic evaluation of female fertility in Ireland PDF
D P Berry, S Coughlan, R D Evans 125
Implementation of reproductive performance genetic evaluations in Canada PDF
B J Van Doormaal, G Kistemaker, F Miglior 129
Genetic evaluation of fertility traits of dairy cattle using a multiple trait model PDF
Z Liu, J Jaitner, E Pasman, S Rensing, F Reinhardt, R Reents 134
Genetic evaluation of female fertility in non-Holstein cows in the UK PDF
E Wall, M Coffey, R Mrode 140
International genetic evaluation of female fertility traits in five major breeds PDF
H Jorjani 144
There and back again: A tale of choosing female fertility traits PDF
H Jorjani 148
Analysis of new fertility traits for the joint genetic evaluation in Austria and Germany PDF
B Gredler, C Fuerst, J Sölkner 152
Methodology of evaluation for female fertility PDF
C Huang, I Misztal, S Tsuruta, T J Lawlor 156
Deriving final score from linear traits in the Italian Holstein population PDF
S. Biffani, E Nicolazzi, F. Canavesi 163
Genetic evaluation for body condition score in Italian Brown Swiss dairy cattle PDF
A Rossoni, C Nicoletti, E Santus 167
First results of body condition score modeling for Walloon Holstein cows PDF
C Bastin, L Laloux, A Gillon, C Bertozzi, S Vanderick, N Gengler 170
Locomotion as a new trait: first results from Denmark PDF
D Boelling, A Fogh, U Sander Nielsen 175
Genetic evaluation of calving traits in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden PDF
D Boelling, U Sander Nielsen, J Pösö, J-Å Eriksson, G P Aamand 179
Improving selection on udder health by using different trait definitions of somatic cell count PDF
Y de Haas, S Bloemhof, W Ouweltjes, J ten Napel, G de Jong 185
Multi-trait test-day model for national genetic evaluation of Australian dairy cattle for somatic cell count PDF
K V Konstantinov, K T Beard, M E Goddard, J van der Werf 190
Test-day model for genetic analysis of udder health traits: somatic cell score and clinical mastitis PDF
E Negussie, K Vuori, I Strandén, E A Mäntysaari 198
From functional to productive longevity in the Netherlands PDF
C van der Linde, A Harbers, G de Jong 203
Longevity evaluation in Finland: stability of evaluations and estimation of genetic parameters PDF
P Back, M Lidauer 208
Accuracy of methods for the genetic evaluation of survival in dairy cattle PDF
J Jamrozik, J Fatehi, L R Schaeffer 212
List of participants PDF
F Fikse 217


ISSN: 2001-340X