Effect of fixed factors and estimation of genetic parameters of growth traits for mountain kids
Other Title(s)
تأثير العوامل الثابتة و تقدير المعالم الوراثية لصفات النمو في الجداء الجبلية
Joint Authors
Baper, Mevan Ibrahim
Hurmuz, Hani Nasir
Source
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Issue
Vol. 50, Issue 6 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1542-1550, 9 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Agriculture
Publication Date
2019-12-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Body weights at birth (469), weaning (394) and at six month of age (358) for kids utilized in this study were raised at private project in Duhok governorate, Iraq during two kidding season (2016-2017) and (2017-2018).
GLM within SAS programme was used to analyze the data which include the fixed effects (age of doe, year and season of kidding, sex of kid and type of birth, regression on doe weight at kidding, and the regression of later weights of kids on earlier weights) influencing the studied traits.
Restricted Maximum Likelihood Method was used to estimate repeatability, heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations after adjusting the records for fixed effects.
Variance components of random effects were tested for positive definite.
Overall mean of weights at birth (BWT), weaning (WWT) and 6 month of age (WT6M) were 2.92, 15.32 and 24.45 kg, respectively.
Differences among groups of age of doe in all studied traits were not significant, while year of kidding and sex of kid affect all traits significantly (p<0.01).
Season of kidding affect BWT and WWT significantly (P<0.01).
Single born kids were heavier (P<0.01) than twins in BWT only.
Regression of BWT on doe weight at kidding (0.033 kg/kg) was significant (P<0.01), while the regressions of WWT and WT6M were not significant.
The regression coefficients of WWT on BWT (1.906 kg/kg) and of WT6M on WWT (0.835 kg/kg) were highly significant (P<0.01).
Repeatability estimates for BWT, WWT and WT6M were 0.47, 0.45 and 0.35, respectively; on the same order the estimates of heritability were 0.41, 0.61 and 0.79.
Genetic correlations between BWT with each of WWT (0.45) and WT6M (0.55), and between WWT and WT6M (0.68) were highly significant.
All phenotypic correlations between each pair of body weights were higher than genetic correlations and ranged between 0.48 and 0.73.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hurmuz, Hani Nasir& Baper, Mevan Ibrahim. 2019. Effect of fixed factors and estimation of genetic parameters of growth traits for mountain kids. The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science،Vol. 50, no. 6, pp.1542-1550.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-947362
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hurmuz, Hani Nasir& Baper, Mevan Ibrahim. Effect of fixed factors and estimation of genetic parameters of growth traits for mountain kids. The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science Vol. 50, no. 6 (2019), pp.1542-1550.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-947362
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hurmuz, Hani Nasir& Baper, Mevan Ibrahim. Effect of fixed factors and estimation of genetic parameters of growth traits for mountain kids. The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science. 2019. Vol. 50, no. 6, pp.1542-1550.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-947362
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Text in English ; abstracts in English and Arabic.
Record ID
BIM-947362