[Establishing the selection objective in a pig population] | Stabilirea obiectivului selectiei intr-o populatie de porcine
2011
Movileanu, G., Universitatea Valahia, Tirgoviste (Romania)
The goal of this paper is to optimize the selection objective in a paternal pig line. Therefore, we simulated six types of indexes, which differ among them on the number of traits. The following traits were analyzed: body weight at the age of 182 months (BW), percentage of empty body meat (MPB); average daily gain between the age of 0-182 months (ADG); average daily gain of empty body (ADGB). MPB trait was included in each objective (index). The six indexes were: MPB+BW; MPB+ADG; MPB+ADGB; MPB+BW+ADG; MPB+BW+ASDGB, and MPB+BW+ADG+ADGB . The genetic parameters were computed using the REML method and the biologic importance of the traits was estimated on linear multiple regression. In order to establish the best combination of traits which maximized the expected genetic progress, certain parameters were used, such as: the accuracy of selection, overall genetic progress (DH) and the genetic progress for each trait (DGi ). The best index was the last, which included all traits. It had the following parameters: 1,087 (r HI ); 2,144 (DH) and 3,35% (DG for MPB).
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