Articles

• Preface

  G Banos

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• Stability of international dairy bull evaluations

  R L Powell, G R Wiggans, M Sieber

  3

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• Change of genetic parameters for national evaluations of Italian Holstein and effect on international proofs

  A Bagnato, P Carnier, F Canavesi, M Cassandro, E Dadati

  8

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• Trend of within country sire variance and potential impact on international evaluations for production traits

  M Cassandro, F Canavesi, A Brandts, P Carnier, L Gallo, G Bittante, A Bagnato

  12

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• Effect of different parameters on the international ranking of bulls

  P Rozzi

  18

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• International sire evaluations and conversions in upgrading populations with changing means and variances

  K A Weigel, G Banos, A Sigurdsson

  21

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• Developments in applying MACE to the conformation traits

  M M Lohuis, L R Schaeffer, P Rozzi

  26

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• Genetic correlations among somatic cell scores, productive life, and type traits from the United States and udder health measures from Denmark and Sweden

  G W Rogers, G Banos, U Sander Nielsen, J Philipsson

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• Genetic correlations among protein, productive life, and type traits from the United States and diseases other than mastitis from Denmark and Sweden

  G W Rogers, G Banos, U Sander Nielsen

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• Estimation of genetic parameters of test day production in Finnish Ayrshire cows

  J Pösö, E A Mäntysaari, A Kettunen

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• Genetic variability of French dairy breeds estimated from pedigree information

  L Maignel, D Boichard, E Verrier

  49

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• Effect of imported daughters on the genetic evaluation of Holsteins in the United Kingdom

  R A Mrode, G.J.T. Swanson, M S Winters

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• Effect of true vs approximate variances on selection for yield traits in Bulgarian Jersey-type Rhodopa cattle

  G Dimov, D Vassilev

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• A study of the effect of the country producer of sires on the genetic features of the Brown breed in Bulgaria

  J Krastanov, L Yordanova, V Videv, Y Fenerova

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• The presentation of calving survey information on Holstein Friesian sires

  B J McGuirk, I Going

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• Sensitivity of total indices for economic weighing of traits

  J Claus, F Reinhardt

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• Economic weights for longevity in the Italian Holstein breed

  A Brandts, F Canavesi, M Cassandro

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• Mastitis resistance index: Selection for udder health

  G de Jong, L.M.T.E. Lansbergen

  81

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• Indices for super-traits versus total merit index: Theoretical considerations and practical benefits

  J.B.M. Wilmink

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• Relationships among indexes for individual traits, stayability, and total merit for Swedish dairy breeds

  B Lindhé, J Philipsson, JÅ Eriksson, M Gundel, DA Danielsson

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• Constructing an index for beef characteristics in dairy cattle based on carcass traits

  J.H.J van der Werf, A F Groen, G de Jong

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• Genetic relationships between feed intake capacity in growing bulls and production traits in lactating heifers

  R Wassmunth

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• Genetic parameters for beef traits measured on future AI-bulls and their daughters production

  J H Jakobsen, P Madsen, J Jensen

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• Genetic evaluation for dairy production traits with a test day model for multiple lactations

  R Reents, L Dopp

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• A computationally feasible test day model with separate first and later lactation genetic effects

  G R Wiggans, M E Goddard

  118

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• Random regression models for production traits in Canadian Holsteins

  J Jamrozik, L R Schaeffer, J Dekkers

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• Implementation of an animal model for production traits of dairy cattle in Estonia

  R Reents, M Uba, K Pedastsaar, T Vares

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• Application of a canonical transformation with missing values to multitrait analysis of U.S. Jersey type data

  N Gengler, G R Wiggans, J R Wright, H D Norman, C W Wolfe

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• Genetic analysis of female fertility of Israeli Holsteins by the individual animal model

  J I Weller, E Ezra

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• Evaluation methods of subjectively scored functional traits in Finland

  J Juga

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• Indices for resistance against diseases

  U Sander Nielsen, G A Pedersen, J Pedersen

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• Genetic evaluation for length of productive life in dairy cattle using survival analysis

  F Reinhardt, E Pasman

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• Genetic evaluation for herd life in Canada

  L K Jairath, J Dekkers, L R Schaeffer, Z Liu

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