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Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes

The data on first lactation and lifetime performance records of 501 Nili-Ravi were collected for a period from 1983 to 2017 (35 years) maintained at ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Sub-Campus, Nabha, Punjab. The data were analyzed to calculate heritability, genetic and phenotypic c...

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Autores principales: Tamboli, Pooja, Bharadwaj, Anurag, Chaurasiya, Amit, Bangar, Yogesh Chandrakant, Jerome, Andonissamy
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8242160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34222389
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.557468
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author Tamboli, Pooja
Bharadwaj, Anurag
Chaurasiya, Amit
Bangar, Yogesh Chandrakant
Jerome, Andonissamy
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description The data on first lactation and lifetime performance records of 501 Nili-Ravi were collected for a period from 1983 to 2017 (35 years) maintained at ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Sub-Campus, Nabha, Punjab. The data were analyzed to calculate heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlation for first lactation traits, viz., Age at First Calving (AFC), First Lactation Total Milk Yield (FLTMY), First Lactation Standard (305 days or less) Milk Yield (FLSMY), First Peak Milk Yield (FPY), First Lactation Length (FLL), First Dry Period (FDP), First Service Period (FSP) and First Calving Interval (FCI), Herd Life (HL), Productive Life (PL), Productive Days (PD), Unproductive Days (UD), Breeding Efficiency (BE), Total Lifetime Milk Yield (Total LTMY), Standard Lifetime Milk Yield (Standard LTMY), Milk Yield Per Day of Productive Life (MY/PL), Milk Yield Per Day of Productive Days (MY/PD), and Milk Yield Per Day of Herd Life (MY/HL). For estimation of variance component and heritability separately for each trait, the uni-trait animal model was equipped, whereas to estimate genetic and phenotypic correlations between traits, bi-trait animal models were fitted. The estimates of heritability for production and reproduction traits of Nili-Ravi were medium, i.e., 0.365 ± 0.087, 0.353 ± 0.071, 0.318 ± 0.082, 0.354 ± 0.076, and 0.362 ± 0.086 for FLSMY, FDP, FSP, FCI, and AFC, respectively. The estimates of heritability were low, i.e., 0.062 ± 0.088, 0.123 ± 0.090, 0.158 ± 0.090, 0.155 ± 0.091, and 0.129 ± 0.091 for HL, PL, PD, Total LTMY, and Standard LTMY and high, i.e., 0.669 ± 0.096 for BE. Genetic correlation for FLTMY was high with FLL (0.710 ± 0.103), and genetic correlation of FLTMY was high and positive with HL, Total LTMY, MY/PL, and MY/PD while low and positive with PL. Genetic correlation of AFC was low and negative with PL, PD, UD, BE, Total LTMY, Standard LTMY, MY/PL, and MY/PD and negative with MY/HL. Significant positive phenotypic association of FPY was seen with FLTMY, FLSMY, FLL, AFC, HL, Total LTMY, and Standard LTMY. Higher heritability of first lactation traits especially FPY suggests sufficient additive genetic variability, which can be exploited under selection and breeding policy in order to improve overall performance of Nili-Ravi buffaloes.
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spelling pubmed-82421602021-07-01 Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes Tamboli, Pooja Bharadwaj, Anurag Chaurasiya, Amit Bangar, Yogesh Chandrakant Jerome, Andonissamy Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science The data on first lactation and lifetime performance records of 501 Nili-Ravi were collected for a period from 1983 to 2017 (35 years) maintained at ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Sub-Campus, Nabha, Punjab. The data were analyzed to calculate heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlation for first lactation traits, viz., Age at First Calving (AFC), First Lactation Total Milk Yield (FLTMY), First Lactation Standard (305 days or less) Milk Yield (FLSMY), First Peak Milk Yield (FPY), First Lactation Length (FLL), First Dry Period (FDP), First Service Period (FSP) and First Calving Interval (FCI), Herd Life (HL), Productive Life (PL), Productive Days (PD), Unproductive Days (UD), Breeding Efficiency (BE), Total Lifetime Milk Yield (Total LTMY), Standard Lifetime Milk Yield (Standard LTMY), Milk Yield Per Day of Productive Life (MY/PL), Milk Yield Per Day of Productive Days (MY/PD), and Milk Yield Per Day of Herd Life (MY/HL). For estimation of variance component and heritability separately for each trait, the uni-trait animal model was equipped, whereas to estimate genetic and phenotypic correlations between traits, bi-trait animal models were fitted. The estimates of heritability for production and reproduction traits of Nili-Ravi were medium, i.e., 0.365 ± 0.087, 0.353 ± 0.071, 0.318 ± 0.082, 0.354 ± 0.076, and 0.362 ± 0.086 for FLSMY, FDP, FSP, FCI, and AFC, respectively. The estimates of heritability were low, i.e., 0.062 ± 0.088, 0.123 ± 0.090, 0.158 ± 0.090, 0.155 ± 0.091, and 0.129 ± 0.091 for HL, PL, PD, Total LTMY, and Standard LTMY and high, i.e., 0.669 ± 0.096 for BE. Genetic correlation for FLTMY was high with FLL (0.710 ± 0.103), and genetic correlation of FLTMY was high and positive with HL, Total LTMY, MY/PL, and MY/PD while low and positive with PL. Genetic correlation of AFC was low and negative with PL, PD, UD, BE, Total LTMY, Standard LTMY, MY/PL, and MY/PD and negative with MY/HL. Significant positive phenotypic association of FPY was seen with FLTMY, FLSMY, FLL, AFC, HL, Total LTMY, and Standard LTMY. Higher heritability of first lactation traits especially FPY suggests sufficient additive genetic variability, which can be exploited under selection and breeding policy in order to improve overall performance of Nili-Ravi buffaloes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8242160/ /pubmed/34222389 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.557468 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tamboli, Bharadwaj, Chaurasiya, Bangar and Jerome. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Tamboli, Pooja
Bharadwaj, Anurag
Chaurasiya, Amit
Bangar, Yogesh Chandrakant
Jerome, Andonissamy
Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes
title Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes
title_full Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes
title_fullStr Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes
title_full_unstemmed Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes
title_short Genetic Parameters for First Lactation and Lifetime Traits of Nili-Ravi Buffaloes
title_sort genetic parameters for first lactation and lifetime traits of nili-ravi buffaloes
topic Veterinary Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8242160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34222389
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.557468
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