Interbull Bulletin

Articles

• Variance Component Re-Estimation and Model Simplification in a Single-Step Random Regression Test-Day Model for Nordic Red Dairy Cattle

  T.Pitkänen, M.H. Lidauer, M. Taskinen, J. Pösö, A.Kudinov, K. Byskov, H.Splittorff, M.Koivula

  1-6

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• Augmented Monte Carlo AI-REML for (co)variance component estimation in single-step models

  Hongding Gao, Ismo Strandén

  7-12

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• A Sire-Dam Threshold Model for U.S. Single-step Calving-Ease Evaluation

  Simone Savoia, Jacob Maskal, Ezequiel Luis Nicolazzi , John B. Cole, Andres Legarra

  13-18

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• Genetic correlations between juvenile mortality traits and traits in selection on French dairy cattle breeds

  Sophie Aguerre, Aurélia Baur, Léa Chapard, Roxane Vallée, Hélène Leclerc, Florian Besnard, Sébastien Fritz, Sophie Mattalia, Pascal Croiseau

  19-23

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• Re-ranking of Imported Angus Sires Following Integration of Foreign Genotypes into a National Genomic Evaluation

  Hannah Kruger, Jason Reding, Bobbie van der Westhuizen

  24-31

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• Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Lactation Persistency and Productive Maturity in the Italian Brown Swiss Breed

  Attilio Rossoni, Chiara Nicoletti, Enrico santus

  32-35

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• Refinement of U.S. Reproductive Performance Evaluations for the Modern Dairy Herd

  Taylor McWhorter, J.R. Graham, E. Nicolazzi, P.M. VanRaden, A. Ling, S. Savoia, A. Legarra

  36-40

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• 2025 National Breeding Objective review for Australian dairy cattle

  Thuy Nguyen, Peter Thurn, Lee Monks, Gert Nieuwhof, Peter Williams, Michelle Axford, Matthew Shaffer

  41-46

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• Genetics of increased importance of health traits

  Ignacy Misztal, Matias Bermann, Daniela Lourenco

  47-50

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• Interaction between adaptation and mitigation traits in Canadian Holsteins

  Gabriella R. Dodd, Christine F. Baes, Flavio S. Schenkel, Coralie Machefert, Issabelle Ampofo, Baran Amini, Victoria Storing, Allison Fleming, Kristin Lee, Francesca Malchiodi, Caeli M. Richardson, Filippo Miglior

  51-57

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• Walloon strategies targeting new traits for efficiency, mitigation, adaptation and resilience in dairy cattle

  Katrien Wijnrocx, Pauline Lemal, Hadi Atashi, Yansen Chen, Hugo Bérat, Nicolas Gengler

  58-64

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• Genetic residual feed intake and its genetic association to other breeding goal traits

  Karoline Bakke, Leiv Sigbjørn Eikje, Gareth Frank Difford, Bjørg Heringstad

  65-70

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• Using sensor-derived estrus dates to improve the genetic evaluation of fertility in the New Zealand dairy industry

  Melissa Stephen, Ahmed Ismael, Richard Sherlock, Bevin Harris

  71-75

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• Assessing the impact of hormonal interventions on genetic evaluation of fertility in New Zealand

  Katarzyna Stachowicz, Tiago Valente, Ee Cheng Ooi, Freddy Fikse, Susanne Meier

  76-82

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• Combining environmental and genomic information in artificial neural networks for phenotypic prediction

  Jeremie Vandenplas, M.P.L. Calus, M. Schrauf, R. Bonifazi, J ten Napel, T. Pook, M.C.A.M. Bink, M. Curcic

  83-88

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• A Machine Learning Framework for Concurrent Identification of Favorable, Deleterious, and Lethal Variants in Bovine Populations

  Nathan Blair, Daniel Null, John Cole, Ezequiel Nicolazzi

  89-95

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• Guidelines on combining genomic data across populations

  Renzo Bonifazi, Jeremie Vandenplas, Stella Aivazidou, Fernando Macedo, Roel Veerkamp, Katie Quigley, Thierry Pabiou, Ross Evans, Harriet Bunning, Getinet Tarekegn, Pourya Davoudi, Kim Matthews, Jonathan Layton, Ray Gian Damai, Raffaella Finocchiaro, Martino Cassandro, Andrea Quaglia, Daniele Vicario, Lorenzo Degano, Martina Piazza, Antonius Roozen, Mike Coffey, Martin Burke

  96-105

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• European Bovine Evaluation – building joint genetic evaluations across Europe

  Johannes Heise, Zengting Liu, Iola Croué, Alexis Michenet, Reinhard Reents, Jens Baltissen, Anders Levring, Haifa Splittorff, Laurent Schibler, Jean-Yves Dréau

  106-109

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• Females in MACE: Resolving double counting using the reverse reliability approximation

  Julius Mugambe, Martin Johnsson, Hongding Gao, Zengting Liu, Valentina Palucci, Sreten Andonov

  110-114

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• Visualizing Relationships between Conformation Traits over Time

  Maciej Misztal, Shogo Tsuruta, Ignacy Misztal, Jason Graham , Sam Comstock, Jeffrey Bewley, Daniela Lourenco

  115-119

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• Estimation of genetic parameters for production traits in Polish Simmental cattle using a random regression test-day model

  Dawid Słomian, Klaudia Gogola, Monika Skarwecka, Kacper Żukowski

  120-125

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• Pilot genomic evaluations of French crossbred dairy cattle

  Audrey Martin, Didier Boichard, Sandra Dominique, Manon Guillerm, Sophie Mattalia, Sébastien Fritz, Pascal Croiseau

  126-131

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• Reassessing Wiggans’ Method for Estimating Daily Yields in 3× Milking Systems over Four Decades: What Have We Learned?

  Nick Wu, George Wiggans, Malia J. Caputo, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Ransom L. Baldwin VI, Steven Sievert, Jay Mattison, John B. Cole, Javier Burchard, João Dürr

  132-138

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• Estimation of across-breed metafounder parameters in all-breed US dairy cattle

  Andres Legarra, Matias Bermann

  139-142

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• Effects of weighting schemes and base adjustment on genomic validation outcomes in the Interbull GEBVtest framework

  Rodrigo Mota, Simone Savoia, Andres Legarra, Taylor McWhorter, Ezequiel Nicolazzi

  143-148

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• Using Interbull validation test results to improve national genomic evaluations

  Peter G Sullivan

  149-155

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