期刊
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS
卷 138, 期 4, 页码 454-462出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12518
关键词
hen; heritability; linear mixed model; maternal effect; variance component; yellow‐ feathered chicken
资金
- Qingyuan City Qingcheng District Industry-University-Research Cooperation Special Fund [2018B02]
- Guangdong Broiler Commercialized Breeding Engineering Technology Research Center [[2017] 1649]
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding [2019B030301010]
- Innovation Team of Precise Animal Breeding [2019KCXTD004]
- Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes [2019KSYS011]
This study focused on genetic parameters of five key traits in Qingyuan partridge chickens, revealing maternal genetic effects play an important role in feather maturity, while maternal effects should also be considered for other traits in breeding strategies.
Qingyuan partridge chicken is an important indigenous chicken in China. In its breeding schemes, chickens are usually selected at the age of 105-day-old for five traits, including body weight (BW), shank length (SL), shank girth (SG), comb height (CH) and feather maturity (FM). At present, genetic parameters of the aforementioned traits have still not been studied in Qingyuan partridge chickens. The objectives of this study were the following: (1) to investigate whether the optimal statistical models of these traits need to consider maternal genetic and permanent environmental effects in late-feathering Qingyuan partridge hens, and (2) to estimate genetic parameters for these traits based on the optimal models. The numbers of records for BW, SL, SG, CH and FM were 13,721, 13,671, 13,670, 13,669 and 13,672, respectively. Variance components were estimated using average information-restricted maximum likelihood method, and the optimal model was determined based on Bayesian information criterion. More specifically, the optimal model for BW considered maternal genetic and permanent environmental effects in addition to direct additive genetic effect; SL, SG and FM considered direct and maternal genetic effects; and CH considered direct and maternal genetic effects, and the covariance between them. The direct heritabilities of these traits estimated using the optimal models were 0.21 +/- 0.04, 0.30 +/- 0.05, 0.40 +/- 0.05, 0.59 +/- 0.09 and 0.09 +/- 0.04, respectively; the maternal heritabilities were 0.01 +/- 0.04, 0.05 +/- 0.05, 0.04 +/- 0.05, 0.09 +/- 0.09 and 0.03 +/- 0.04, respectively. Maternal genetic effect evidently played an important part in FM and maternal heritability accounted for 30 per cent of total heritability. Furthermore, the direct and maternal genetic effects for CH were estimated to be negatively and moderately correlated (-0.51 +/- 0.11). For all traits, neglecting existent maternal effects biased the estimation of direct heritability. Therefore, to implement optimum breeding strategies for improvement of these traits in Qingyuan partridge hens, maternal effects should be taken into consideration.
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