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Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle

The improvement of carcass traits is an important breeding objective in beef cattle breeding programs. The most common way of selecting for improvement in carcass traits is via indirect selection using ultrasound scanning of selection candidates which are submitted to genetic evaluation programs. Tw...

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Autores principales: Duff, C J, van der Werf, J H J, Parnell, P F, Clark, S A
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7963028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33748681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txab011
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van der Werf, J H J
Parnell, P F
Clark, S A
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description The improvement of carcass traits is an important breeding objective in beef cattle breeding programs. The most common way of selecting for improvement in carcass traits is via indirect selection using ultrasound scanning of selection candidates which are submitted to genetic evaluation programs. Two systems used to analyze ultrasound images to predict carcass traits are the Pie Medical Esaote Aquila (PIE) and Central Ultrasound Processing (CUP). This study compared the ability of the two systems to predict carcass traits for genetic evaluation in Australian Angus cattle. Genetic and phenotypic parameters were estimated using data from 1,648 Angus steers which were ultrasound scanned twice with both systems, first at feedlot entry and then following 100 d in the feedlot. The traits interpreted from ultrasound scanning included eye muscle area (EMA), rib fat (RIB) rump fat (RUMP), and intramuscular fat (IMF). Abattoir carcass data were collected on all steers following the full feedlot feeding period of 285 d. For all ultrasound scan traits, CUP resulted in higher phenotypic and genetic variances compared to the PIE. For IMF, CUP had higher heritability at feedlot intake (0.51 for CUP compared to 0.37 for PIE) and after 100 d feeding (0.54 for CUP compared to 0.45 PIE). CUP predicted IMF also tended to have stronger correlations with the breeding objective traits of carcass IMF and marbling traits, both genetically (ranging from 0.59 to 0.75 for CUP compared to 0.45–0.63 for PIE) and phenotypically (ranging from 0.27 to 0.43 for CUP compared to 0.19–0.28 for PIE). Ultrasound scan EMA was the only group of traits in which the heritabilities were higher for PIE (0.52 for PIE compared to 0.40 for CUP at feedlot intake and 0.46 for PIE compared to 0.43 for CUP at 100 d of feeding), however with similar relationships to the breeding objective carcass EMA observed. For subcutaneous fat traits of ultrasound RIB and RUMP, the heritabilites and genetic correlations to the related carcass traits were similar, with the exception being the higher heritability observed for CUP predicted RUMP at feedlot intake at 0.52 compared to 0.38 for PIE. The results from this study indicates that the CUP system, compared to PIE, provides an advantage for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle, particularly for the IMF and associated marbling traits.
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spelling pubmed-79630282021-03-19 Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle Duff, C J van der Werf, J H J Parnell, P F Clark, S A Transl Anim Sci Animal Genetics and Genomics The improvement of carcass traits is an important breeding objective in beef cattle breeding programs. The most common way of selecting for improvement in carcass traits is via indirect selection using ultrasound scanning of selection candidates which are submitted to genetic evaluation programs. Two systems used to analyze ultrasound images to predict carcass traits are the Pie Medical Esaote Aquila (PIE) and Central Ultrasound Processing (CUP). This study compared the ability of the two systems to predict carcass traits for genetic evaluation in Australian Angus cattle. Genetic and phenotypic parameters were estimated using data from 1,648 Angus steers which were ultrasound scanned twice with both systems, first at feedlot entry and then following 100 d in the feedlot. The traits interpreted from ultrasound scanning included eye muscle area (EMA), rib fat (RIB) rump fat (RUMP), and intramuscular fat (IMF). Abattoir carcass data were collected on all steers following the full feedlot feeding period of 285 d. For all ultrasound scan traits, CUP resulted in higher phenotypic and genetic variances compared to the PIE. For IMF, CUP had higher heritability at feedlot intake (0.51 for CUP compared to 0.37 for PIE) and after 100 d feeding (0.54 for CUP compared to 0.45 PIE). CUP predicted IMF also tended to have stronger correlations with the breeding objective traits of carcass IMF and marbling traits, both genetically (ranging from 0.59 to 0.75 for CUP compared to 0.45–0.63 for PIE) and phenotypically (ranging from 0.27 to 0.43 for CUP compared to 0.19–0.28 for PIE). Ultrasound scan EMA was the only group of traits in which the heritabilities were higher for PIE (0.52 for PIE compared to 0.40 for CUP at feedlot intake and 0.46 for PIE compared to 0.43 for CUP at 100 d of feeding), however with similar relationships to the breeding objective carcass EMA observed. For subcutaneous fat traits of ultrasound RIB and RUMP, the heritabilites and genetic correlations to the related carcass traits were similar, with the exception being the higher heritability observed for CUP predicted RUMP at feedlot intake at 0.52 compared to 0.38 for PIE. The results from this study indicates that the CUP system, compared to PIE, provides an advantage for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle, particularly for the IMF and associated marbling traits. Oxford University Press 2021-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7963028/ /pubmed/33748681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txab011 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Animal Science. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Animal Genetics and Genomics
Duff, C J
van der Werf, J H J
Parnell, P F
Clark, S A
Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle
title Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle
title_full Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle
title_fullStr Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle
title_short Comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in Angus cattle
title_sort comparison of two live-animal ultrasound systems for genetic evaluation of carcass traits in angus cattle
topic Animal Genetics and Genomics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7963028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33748681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txab011
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