Articles

• Preface

  G Banos

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• An empirical model to predict part lactation milk production from a single test-day record in Chios Sheep

  A P Mavrogenis, C Papachristoforou

  3

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• On the use of projected 305-day yields in the breeding value prediction for production traits in the Netherlands

  S van der Beek, G de Jong

  8

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• Genotype by environment interaction for milk production traits in Holstein Friesian dairy cattle in Ireland

  A R Cromie, D L Kelleher, F J Gordon, M Rath

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• Estimates of GxE effects for economic efficiency among daughters of Canadian and New Zealand sires in Canadian and New Zealand dairy herds

  P Charagu, R Peterson

  22

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• Estimates of GxE effects for longevity among daughters of Canadian and New Zealand sires in Canadian and New Zealand dairy herds

  P Mwansa, R Peterson

  27

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• Genetic improvement of functional traits in cattle (GIFT) - an intermediate report

  A F Groen, J Aumann, V Ducrocq, N Gengler, J Soelkner, E. Strandberg, J Philipsson

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• Comparison of different procedures to account for heterogeneity of variance within country

  F Canavesi, M Cassandro

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• Estimation of breeding values and heterogeneous variance in French dairy evaluation: first report

  C Robert-Granié, B Bonaïti

  40

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• A parallel solver for multi-trait animal models

  P Madsen, M Larsen

  49

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• Solving MACE equations

  L Klei

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• A method to estimate correlations among countries using data on all bulls

  B Klei, K Weigel

  60

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• MACE for conformation traits

  L Klei, T J Lawlor

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• Studies in MACE correlations for type

  G Jansen, G Jansen, B J Van Doormaal

  70

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• Approximations to Interbull reliabilities

  L Jones

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• Information source reliability method applied to MACE

  B Harris, D Johnson

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• Improved prediction of national genetic evaluations by including information from Interbull evaluations

  R L Powell

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• Impact of heterogeneity of variance over time on international comparisons using a simulation approach

  F Miglior, K A Weigel, G Banos

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• Impact of application of a test day model to dairy production traits on genetic evaluations of cows

  R Reents, L Dopp, M Schmutz, F Reinhardt

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• Adjustment for heterogeneous herd-test-day variances

  G J Kistemaker, L R Schaeffer

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• A comparison of fixed and random regression models applied to dairy test day production data

  Z Liu, J Jamrozik, G Jansen

  105

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• Analysis of persistency of lactation calculated from a random regression test day model

  J Jamrozik, G Jansen, L R Schaeffer, Z Liu

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• Realized effect of selection for mastitis resistance

  T Steine

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