Background The effects of environmental disturbances on livestock are often observed
indirectly through the variability patterns of repeated performance records over time. Sheep …

Due to the high milk production of Holstein cows, many countries have chosen to import
semen to improve local dairy herds. This strategy would be more effective if this semen was …

Persistence may be defined as high sustained yield over multi-harvest. Genetic insights
about persistence are essential to ensure the success of breeding programs and any …

Simple Summary Cattle longevity is usually defined as the duration of life of a cow from first
calving to death. In addition to a longer lifespan, it is crucial that cows are productive …

Reaction norms fitted through random regression models are a powerful tool to identify and
quantify the genotype× environment (G× E) interaction and they represent a promising …

The evaluation of cultivars using multi-environment trials (MET) is an important step in plant
breeding programs. One of the objectives of these evaluations is to understand the genotype …

Background Because of their high economic importance, growth traits in fish are under
continuous improvement. For growth traits that are recorded at multiple time-points in life, the …

The incorporation of modern animal models become imperative for planning breeding
strategies of dairy populations. The present study was designed to compare between single …

Reaction norms fitted through random regression models (RRM) have been widely used in
animal and plant breeding for analyses of genotype× environment (G× E) interaction …

This paper aims to propose a new method for generating growth and degrowth models. To
do so, the composition operation was added to the method proposed by Santos et al.(2019) …