GENETIC-RELATIONSHIP, INBREEDING AND GENERATION INTERVAL IN REGISTERED GIR CATTLE IN BRAZIL
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1993-06-01
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Queiroz, S. A.
Lobo, R. B.
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Blackwell Wissenschafts Verlag Gmbh
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Two-hundred random pedigrees of cows and fifty of sires born in 1987 from the Gir herdbook of the Brazilian Association of Zebu Breeders were analized. The bull Chave de Ouro DGR no. 2851 was the most influential animal with a 7 % direct relationship to the breed. Total average inbreeding was 3.62 and 3.25 for the female and male sample, respectively. The subdivision of total inbreeding into current and non-current components resulted in values of 1.62, 1.25, 2.00 and 2.00 for the female and male sample, respectively. Long-term inbreeding was the principal component of non-current inbreeding, with values of 1.52 % and 1.26 %, respectively. Inbreeding due to strain formation strain due formation was less important (0.48 % and 0.74 %, respectively). The average generation interval was 8.02 years. The breed appears not yet to be subdivided into strains but this process may be starting. The average generation interval for the pedigree population was very high. Culling of old bulls could decrease this interval.
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Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics-zeitschrift Fur Tierzuchtung Und Zuchtungsbiologie. Berlin: Blackwell Wissenschafts-verlag Gmbh, v. 110, n. 3, p. 228-233, 1993.