Journal
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE
Volume 86, Issue 1-2, Pages 119-130Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2004.05.023
Keywords
pig-male reproduction; semen characteristics; genetic parameters
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(Co)variance components and further genetic parameters of boar semen characteristics and reproductive traits were estimated using the REML procedure applied to multi-trait animal models. The calculations were based on data from 210,733 ejaculates stemming from 2862 AI boars and collected from 1990 to 1997 in insemination stations for boars in the Czech Republic. Equal model equations for all traits included the AI station and the breed or breed combination as fixed effects, the interval between two collections for the boar as covariable and the animal and residual effects as random effects. The following heritabilities were estimated: semen volume 0.58, sperm concentration 0.49, progressive motion of spermatozoa 0.38, abnormal spermatozoa 0.34, number of total spermatozoa 0.42, number of insemination doses 0.40, number of piglets born alive 0.08, total number of piglets born 0.05 and conception rate 0.29. Heritabilities and genetic correlations were estimated on average values for each boar. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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