Variance components for body weight in Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica)



Título del documento: Variance components for body weight in Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica)
Revista: Revista brasileira de ciencia avicola
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000279310
ISSN: 1516-635X
Autores: 1






Instituciones: 1Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Departamento de Zootecnia, Maringa, Parana. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Ene-Mar
Volumen: 7
Número: 1
Paginación: 23-25
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Nota breve o noticia
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés The objective of this study was to estimate the variance components for body weight in Japanese quails by Bayesian procedures. The body weight at hatch (BWH) and at 7 (BW07), 14 (BW14), 21 (BW21) and 28 days of age (BW28) of 3,520 quails was recorded from August 2001 to June 2002. A multiple-trait animal model with additive genetic, maternal environment and residual effects was implemented by Gibbs sampling methodology. A single Gibbs sampling with 80,000 rounds was generated by the program MTGSAM (Multiple Trait Gibbs Sampling in Animal Model). Normal and inverted Wishart distributions were used as prior distributions for the random effects and the variance components, respectively. Variance components were estimated based on the 500 samples that were left after elimination of 30,000 rounds in the burn-in period and 100 rounds of each thinning interval. The posterior means of additive genetic variance components were 0.15; 4.18; 14.62; 27.18 and 32.68; the posterior means of maternal environment variance components were 0.23; 1.29; 2.76; 4.12 and 5.16; and the posterior means of residual variance components were 0.084; 6.43; 22.66; 31.21 and 30.85, at hatch, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days old, respectively. The posterior means of heritability were 0.33; 0.35; 0.36; 0.43 and 0.47 at hatch, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days old, respectively. These results indicate that heritability increased with age. On the other hand, after hatch there was a marked reduction in the maternal environment variance proportion of the phenotypic variance, whose estimates w
Disciplinas: Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia
Palabras clave: Aves de corral,
Reproducción y genética animal,
Codorniz japonesa,
Recién nacidos,
Peso corporal,
Heredabilidad
Keyword: Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry,
Animal reproduction and genetics,
Poultry,
Japanese quails,
Newborn,
Body weight,
Heritability
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