S284: Genetic Enhancement of Health and Survival for Dairy Cattle
Publications (Annual Report):
[2003]
[2003]
Publications for year 2002:Abdallah, J. M. and B. T. McDaniel. 2002. Proven and young Holstein bulls compared for daughter yields, productive life, somatic cell score, and inbreeding. J. Dairy Sci. 85:665-669.
Abdallah, J. M. and B. T. McDaniel. 2002. Prediction of most recent evaluations of Holstein bulls from first available pedigree information. J. Dairy Sci. 85:670-676.
Abdallah, J. M. and B. T. McDaniel. 2002. Heritability of changes in genetic evaluations of dairy bulls from first to later records of daughters. J. Dairy Sci. 85:951-957.
Abdallah, J. M., B. T. McDaniel, and M. J. Tabbaa. 2002. Relationships of productive life evaluations of AI Holstein bulls with changes in evaluations for yields. J. Dairy Sci. 85:677-681.
Adamec, V. 2002. The effect of maternal and fetal inbreeding on dystocia, calf survival, days to first service, and non-return performance in U.S. dairy cattle. Ph.D. Diss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA.
AIPL changes to evaluation system November 2001. 2001. http://aipl.arsusda.gov/docs/changes/eval0111.html. Accessed Oct. 17, 2002.
Al-Jumaah, Riyadh. 2001. Influences of using bovine somatotropin on estimates of genetic parameters and genetic evaluation of dairy cows. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln.
Carvalheira, J., G. Licitra, G. Azzaro, S. Ventura, and R. W. Blake. 2002. Genetic parameters of test day milk yield for Holstein, Bruna and Modicana breeds in Southeastern Sicily using an autoregressive multiple lactation animal model. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 01-11. (4 pages)
Cassell, B. G. 2001. Economic indices for genetic evaluation. In Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences. H. Roginski, J. W. Fuquay, and P. F. Fox, ed. Academic Press, London, United Kingdom.
Cassell, B. G., S. M. Jobst, M. L. McGilliard, and R. E. Pearson. 2002. Evaluating sire selection practices using net income functions. J. Dairy Sci. 85:3492-3502.
Chrystal, M. A., A. J. Seykora, L. B. Hansen, A. E. Freeman, D. H. Kelley, and M. H. Healy. 2001. Heritability of teat-end shape and the relationship of teat-end shape with somatic cell score for an experimental herd of cows. J. Dairy Sci. 84:2549-2554.
Cruickshank, J., M. R. Dentine, P. J. Berger, and B. W. Kirkpatrick. 2002. Mapping quantitative trait loci for twinning in Holstein dairy cattle. Proceedings of the 28th Intl. Conf. Anim. Genet., Goettingen, Germany, p. 164.
Dechow, C. D., G. W. Rogers, and J. S. Clay. 2002. Genetic correlations among body condition scores, body condition score loss, production and days to first insemination. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 01-32. (4 pages)
DeGroot, B. J., J. F. Keown, L. D. van Vleck, and E. L. Marotz. 2002. Genetic parameters and responses of linear type, yield traits, and somatic cell scores to divergent selection for predicted transmitting ability for type in Holsteins. J. Dairy Sci. 85:1578-1585.
Gengler, N., G. R. Wiggans, J. R. Wright, and T. Druet. 2003. Simultaneous multitrait estimation of genetic merit and heterogeneous variances for type traits. J. Dairy Sci. (In Press).
Hansen, L. B. 2002. The role of genetics in cow longevity. Proceedings of the Midwest Dairy Herd Health Conf., Middleton, WI. Univ. Wisconsin-Dairy Extension, Madison, WI.
Kearney, J. F., M. M. Schutz, and P. J. Boettcher. 2003. Genotype by environment interaction in grazing versus confinement dairy production. II. Health and reproduction. J. Dairy Sci. (In Press).
Kearney, J. F., M. M. Schutz, P. J. Boettcher, and K. A. Weigel. 2003. Genotype by environment interaction in grazing versus confinement dairy production. I. Milk production traits. J. Dairy Sci. (In Press).
Kearney, J. F., M. M. Schutz, P. J. Boettcher, and K. A. Weigel. 2002. Genotype by Environment Interaction for US Holsteins in Two Production Systems. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 13-09. (4 pages)
Meyer, C. L., P. J. Berger, K. J. Koehler, J. R. Thompson, and C. G. Sattler. 2001. Phenotypic trends in incidence of stillbirth for Holsteins in the United States. J. Dairy Sci. 84:515-523.
Miller, R. H., J. S. Clay, and H. D. Norman. 2001. Relationship of somatic cell score with fertility measures. J. Dairy Sci. 84:25432548.
Miller, R. H., and H. D. Norman. 2002. Somatic cell counts of milk from Dairy Herd Improvement herds during 2001. AIPL Res. Rep. SCC3(3-02). Available: http://aipl.arsusda.gov/ docs/dhi/dhi01/scc01.htm. Accessed Oct. 17, 2002.
Nash, D. L., G. W. Rogers, J. B. Cooper, G. L. Hargrove, and J. F. Keown. 2002. Relationships among severity and duration of clinical mastitis and sire transmitting abilities for somatic cell score, udder type traits, productive life, and protein yield. J. Dairy Sci. 85:1273-1284.
Norman, H. D., T. J. Lawlor, and J. R. Wright. 2002. Performance of Holstein clones in the United States. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 27-05. (4 pages)
Pettersson, G. K., P. A. Oltenacu, D. O. Maizon, E. C. Svensson, P. G. A. Liberg. 2003. Effects of dam-related factors on heart girth at birth and morbidity, and of dam, environment, and management-related factors on growth rate from birth to 90 days of age in Swedish dairy calves. Prev. Vet. Med. (In Press).
Raffrenato, E., R. W. Blake, P. A. Oltenacu, and J. Carvalheira. 2002. Heterogeneous genetic variances of dairy cow performance in Sicilian environments. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 18-03. (4 pages)
Ravagnolo, O, and I. Misztal. 2002. Studies on genetics of heat tolerance in dairy cattle with reduced weather information via cluster analysis. J. Dairy Sci. 85:1586-1589.
Ravagnolo, O, and I. Misztal. 2002. Effect of heat stress on nonreturn rate in Holsteins: Fixed-model analysis. J. Dairy Sci. (Accepted).
Rogers, G. W. 2002. Aspects of milk composition, productive life and type traits in relation to mastitis and other diseases in dairy cattle. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 09-18. (8 pages)
Shook, G. E., K. A. Weigel, J. Sun, and J. S. Clay. 2002. Effect of data quality on genetic parameters for days to first insemination in dairy cattle. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 01-29. (4 pages)
Tsuruta. S., I. Misztal, T. J. Lawlor, and B. Klei. 2002. Application of a Random Regression Model at Different Ages for Final Scores in Holsteins. J. Dairy Sci. 85:1324-1330.
VanRaden, P. M. 2002. Selection of dairy cattle for lifetime profit. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 01-21. (4 pages)
VanRaden, P. M., and R. L. Powell. 2002. Properties of international longevity evaluations and correlations with other traits. Inter. Bull Eval. Serv. Bull. 29:6165. Dept. Anim. Breeding and Genet., SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.
VanRaden, P. M., G. R. Wiggans, C. P. Van Tassell, and J. R. Wright. 2002. AIPL changes to evaluation system August 2002. Available: http://aipl.arsusda.gov/docs/changes/eval0208.html. Accessed Oct. 17, 2002.
Van Tassell, C. P., and G. R. Wiggans. 2002. Enhancing quality of dystocia data by integration into a national dairy cattle production database. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 20-16. (4 pages)
Wiggans, G. R., and P. M. VanRaden. 2002. AIPL changes to evaluation system February 2002. Available: http://aipl.arsusda.gov/docs/changes/eval0202.html. Accessed Oct. 17, 2002.
Wiggans, G. R., C. P. Van Tassell, J. C. Philpot, and I. Misztal. 2002. Comparison of dystocia evaluations from sire and sire maternal grandsire threshold models. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. CD-ROM communication no. 20-17. (4 pages)
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