Animal Production Science
Volume 63 Issues 10 & 11 2023
Special Issue
25th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
| Table of Contents | |
| Preliminary material | iii-xiv |
| Helen Newton Turner Medallist Oration 2021 | |
| Reflections on genetic improvement | 925 |
| J.H.J. van der Werf | |
| Review | |
| Defining breeding objectives for sustainability in cattle: challenges and opportunities | 931 |
| C.M. Richardson, J.J. Crowley and P.R. Amer | |
| Research Papers | |
| On the value of adding commercial data into the reference population of the Angus SteerSELECT genomic tool | 947 |
| A. Reverter, L. Porto-Neto, B.C. Hine, P.A. Alexandre, M. Samaraweera, A.I. Byrne, A.B. Ingham and C.J. Duff | |
| A large proportion of genetic variation in cow and ewe body composition is independent of yearling composition | 957 |
| W.S. Pitchford | |
| Temporal trends in estimated breeding values for daughter fertility in Holstein and Jersey cows in the Australian dairy | 963 |
| J. Morton | |
| Long-read Pore-C shows the 3D structure of the cattle genome | 972 |
| L.T. Nguyen, H. Jung, J. Ma, S. Andersen and E. Ross | |
| Genetic relationships among yearling fertility, body composition andweight traits in tropically adapted composite cattle | 983 |
| M.L. Facy, M.L. Hebart, H. Oakey, R.A. McEwin and W.S. Pitchford | |
| The impact of QTL sharing and properties on multi-breed GWAS in cattle: a simulation study | 996 |
| I. van den Berg and I.M. MacLeod | |
| A copy number variant near KITLG is associated with the roan pattern in alpacas | 1008 |
| I. Shah, N. Gray, D. Groth, S. Brooks and K.A. Munyard | |
| Reaction-norm analysis of neonatal lamb mortality suggests heritability varies with cold-stress: an example in the Elsenburg Merino selection lines | 1017 |
| C.L. Nel, Y. Steyn, A.R. Gilmour, D. Waters, S.A. Clark, J.H.J. van derWerf, A.A. Swan, K. Dzama and S.W.P. Cloete | |
| Improving accuracy and stability of genetic predictions for dairy cow survival | 1031 |
| M. Khansefid, J.E. Pryce, S. Shahinfar, M. Axford, M.E. Goddard and M. Haile-Mariam | |
| Is there sufficient genetic variation to breed Elsenburg Merino sheep with shorter tails? | 1043 |
| M. Teubes, S. W. P. Cloete, K. Dzama and A. J. Scholtz | |
| Identification of six genomic regions associated with pigment intensity in alpacas | 1052 |
| N. Gray, I. Shah, D. Groth and K.A. Munyard | |
| Comparative metabolomics analysis shows key metabolites as potential biomarkers for selection of beef fat colour | 1063 |
| R. Tian, H. Kharrati-Koopaee, H. Asadollahpour Nanaie, X. Wang, M. Zhao, H. Li, Y. Li, H. Zhang, A. Esmailizadeh and C.D.K. Bottema | |
| Using Australian genomics to predict dairy cattle performance in New Zealand | 1068 |
| C. Mckimmie, M. Khansefid and H. Amirpour-Najafabadi | |
| Skim-Nanopore sequencing for routine genomic evaluation and bacterial pathogen detection in cattle | 1074 |
| H.J. Lamb, L.T. Nguyen, T.E. Briody, R.K. Ambrose, B.J. Hayes, T.J. Mahony and E.M. Ross | |
| Approximating prediction error variances and accuracies of estimated breeding values from a SNP–BLUP model for genotyped individuals | 1086 |
| L. Li, P.M. Gurman, A.A. Swan and B. Tier | |
| Application of machine-learning algorithms to predict calving difficulty in Holstein dairy cattle | 1095 |
| M. Avizheh, M. Dadpasand, E. Dehnavi and H. Keshavarzi | |
| An investigation into potential genetic predictors of birth weight in tropically adapted beef cattle in northern Australia | 1105 |
| K.L. Moore, D.J. Johnston and T.P. Grant | |
| Use of dry-matter intake recorded at multiple time periods during lactation increases the accuracy of genomic prediction for dry-matter intake and residual feed intake in dairy cattle | 1113 |
| S. Bolormaa, M. Haile-Mariam, L.C. Marett, F. Miglior, C.F. Baes, F.S. Schenkel, E.E. Connor, C.I.V. Manzanilla-Pech, E. Wall, M.P. Coffey, M.E. Goddard, I.M. MacLeod and J.E. Pryce | |
| The Sustainability Index: a new tool to breed for reduced greenhouse-gas emissions intensity in Australian dairy cattle | 1126 |
| T.T.T. Nguyen, C.M. Richardson, M. Post, P.R. Amer, G.J. Nieuwhof, P. Thurn and M. Shaffer | |
| SNP associations and genetic-parameter estimation for nose and hoof pigmentation in Corriedale sheep | 1136 |
| J.E. Aldersey, M.S. Khatkar, P.J. Blackwood, C.E. Blackwood, J.M. Pitchford, H. Gordon, S.C. Welsh and W.S. Pitchford | |
| The genetic and phenotypic associations between lamb survival outcomes and other traits recorded at lambing | 1148 |
| K.L. Bunter, D.J. Brown, P.M. Gurman, L. Li and A.A. Swan | |