Direct and maternal additive effects are not the main determinants of Iberian piglet perinatal mortality
Data of 127,800 Iberian piglets were used to study genetic parameters of mortality at birth at the piglet level. These records proceed from three data sets 4,987 litter of 2,156 sows of a dam line, 2,768 litter of 817 sows of a complete diallel cross between four Iberian strains and 7,153 litter of 2,113 sows of the Torbiscal composite line. Perinatal mortality was considered as a binary trait, and Bayesian threshold animal models were fitted to separately analyse the three data sets. The posterior means of direct heritability were 0.010, 0.004 and 0.003, and those of maternal heritability were 0.034, 0.011 and 0.014 for dam line, diallel cross and Torbiscal line, respectively. Important effects of litter size and parity order were inferred in the three data sets, of within-breed cross-breeding parameters in the diallel cross and of sex and sow handling in the Torbiscal line Therefore, the inclusion of perinatal mortality in the objective of selection is questionable in this breed and strategies for reducing piglet mortality successful in other breeds should be considered. © 2017 Blackwell Verlag GmbH
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| Format: | journal article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2017
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| Subjects: | Bayesian analyses, Iberian pig, Non-genetic effects, Perinatal mortality, Threshold model, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12792/3063 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/293569 |
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