No. 38 (2008): Proceedings of the 2008 Interbull meeting

Articles

• Preface

  J Dürr

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• Level of connectedness and reliability in international beef evaluation

  E Venot, M-N Fouilloux, P Sullivan, D Laloë

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• Fattening beef for froggies. Postweaning evaluations in French beef breeds

  M-N Fouilloux, E Venot, D Laloë

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• Developments in national and international beef evaluations; some experiences from Ireland

  R D Evans, T Pabiou, A Cromie, F Kearney, R Veerkamp, P Amer

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• Genetic parameters for carcass cuts yields in beef cattle

  T Pabiou, W.F. Fikse, A Näsholm, A R Cromie, M D Drennan, M G Keane, D P Berry

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• How to summarize historic test-day record information?

  V Ducrocq, M del P. Schneider

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• Impact of data editing on fat and protein content on stability of test day model evaluation

  F Canavesi, G B Jansen, E L Nicolazzi, S Biffani, R Finocchiaro

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• Strategy for estimation of variance components for joint Nordic yield evaluation

  P Madsen, M Lidauer, E A Mäntysaari

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• Accounting for the effect of pregnancy in the Canadian test day model

  J Bohmanova, F Miglior, J Jamrozik, L R Schaeffer, S Loker

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• Including production in female fertility evaluations

  A Sewalem, G Kistemaker

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• Preliminary evaluations for production traits in mixed breed populations in the United Kingdom

  R Mrode, M Coffey, E Wall

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• Genetic evaluation for casein contents in Italian Brown Swiss: Preliminary results

  A Rossoni, O Bonetti, C Nicoletti, A. Bagnato, A Samoré

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• Genetic correlations between somatic cell count and milkability in the first three lactations in Fleckvieh

  J Dodenhoff, R Emmerling

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• Comparison between methods for estimation of breeding values for longevity in Slovenian Holstein population

  K Potočnik, J Krsnik, M. Štepec, G Gorjanc

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• Relationship between gestation length, calving difficulty, and perinatal mortality in primiparous Holstein cows

  E López de Maturana, X L Wu, D Gianola, K A Weigel, G Rosa

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• Bayesian inclusion of external evaluations into a national evaluation system: application to milk production traits

  N Gengler, S Vanderick

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• Managing genetic recessives in Canadian Holsteins

  B J Van Doormaal, G J Kistemaker

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• Application of a multivariate random regression sire model to estimate genetic parameters among milk yield, somatic cell count and laminitis

  S König, M. Tietze, D Landmann, H Simianer

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• Estimates of breeding values for sires based on diagnoses recorded at hoof trimming: Relationships with EBV for conformation traits

  H H Swalve, H Alkhoder, R Pijl

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• Genetic correlations between claw health and feet and leg conformation traits in Swedish dairy cows

  E Uggla, J.H. Jakobsen, C Bergsten, J-Å Eriksson, E Strandberg

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• Results of the pilot study for body condition score and locomotion

  T J Lawlor, B Klei

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• Feasibility of International genetic evaluation for workability traits

  J H Jakobsen, V Palucci, H Jorjani

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• Joint genetic evaluation of other disease traits in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

  K Johansson, J Pösö, U Sander Nielsen, J-Å Eriksson, G P Aamand

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• Use of national and international EBVs of fertility in total merit index

  S Minéry, M Brochard, S Mattalia

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• Experiences in combining MACE fertility proofs to the new German daughter fertility index RZR

  S Rensing, Z Liu, F Reinhardt

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• On the dilution of information

  H Jorjani

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• To be connected or not? Answers for dairy cattle international genetic evaluations

  M-N Fouilloux, R Dassonneville, S Minéry, S Mattalia, D Laloë, F Fikse

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• Estimating genetic correlations of traits relevant for calculating total merit index

  Z Liu, J Tarres, V Ducrocq, F Reinhardt, R Reents

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• Principal component approach in describing the across country genetic correlations

  A-M Tyrisevä, M H Lidauer, V Ducrocq, P Back, F Fikse, E A Mäntysaari

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• Strategies for solving Mace mixed model equations

  F Fikse

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• Predicting MACE breeding values on a phantom country scale

  H Täubert, Z Liu, F Reinhardt

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• Assessment of predictive ability of MACE for production traits of Italian and foreign bulls

  J B.C.H.M van Kaam, R Finocchiaro, F Canavesi, S Biffani

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• List of participants

  J Dürr

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