Genetic parameters for fertility traits in Nellore bulls

被引：20

作者：

Carvalho Filho, Ivan ^{[1
]}

Diniz Marques, Daniele Botelho ^{[1
]}

de Campos, Carolina Filardi ^{[1
]}

Guimaraes, Jose Domingos ^{[2
]}

Facioni Guimaraes, Simone Eliza ^{[1
]}

Lopes, Paulo Savio ^{[1
]}

Fonseca e Silva, Fabyano ^{[1
]}

Veroneze, Renata ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Fed Vicosa, Dept Zootecnia, Vicosa, MG, Brazil

[2] Univ Fed Vicosa, Dept Med Vet, Vicosa, MG, Brazil

来源：

REPRODUCTION IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS | 2020年 / 55卷 / 01期

关键词：

genetic correlation; heritability; semen quality; testicular biometry; Zebu; REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS; SCROTAL CIRCUMFERENCE; TESTICULAR VOLUME; ASSOCIATION; GROWTH; COWS; AGE;

D O I：

10.1111/rda.13578

中图分类号：

S8 [畜牧、动物医学、狩猎、蚕、蜂];

学科分类号：

0905 ;

摘要：

Nellore is the main cattle breed used in Brazil, being the largest commercial herd in the world. Beyond the importance of male reproductive efficiency for farm profit, the use of reproductive techniques, mainly artificial insemination, turns the evaluation of male reproductive traits even more important. Estimation of genetic parameters increases the knowledge on traits variances and allows envisaging the possibility of the inclusion of new traits as selection criterion. Genetic parameters for fifteen traits that can be classified as testicular biometry or physical and morphological semen traits were estimated for a Nellore bull population ranging from 18 to 36 months. Single-trait and bi-trait animal models were used for (co)variance components estimation. The contemporary group was considered as fixed effect and age at measurement as covariable. Scrotal circumference presented heritability of 0.47 +/- 0.12. This value is similar to the heritabilities found for all testicular biometry traits (0.34-0.48). Sperm progressive motility, which has a direct effect on bull fertility, presented low heritability (0.07 +/- 0.08). Major and total sperm defects presented moderate to high heritabilities (0.49 +/- 0.18 and 0.39 +/- 0.15, respectively), indicating that great genetic gain can be obtained through selection against sperm defects. High and positive genetic correlations were observed among testicular biometry traits, which also presented favourable genetic correlations with physical and morphological traits of the semen with magnitude ranging from high to low. Scrotal circumference presented moderate to high and favourable genetic correlations with sperm progressive motility, sperm turbulence, major sperm defects and total sperm defects. Thus, the selection for scrotal circumference results in favourable correlated genetic response for semen quality. The results show that the use of scrotal circumference as reference trait for bull fertility is appropriate, since it presents high heritability and favourable genetic correlation with semen quality.

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页码：38 / 43

页数：6

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