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Animal Selection & Heterosis
item Validation of loci and genes associated with fertility in Holstein cows using gene-set enrichment analysis-SNP and genotype-by-sequencing (Feb 2025)
item Invited review: Management of genetic defects in dairy cattle populations (Feb 2025)
item Genetic and genomic evaluations of quantitative milking speed phenotypes (Jan 2025)
item Association of individual cow milk fatty acid proportion and variance with milk production (Jan 2025)
item Net merit as a measure of lifetime profit: 2025 revision (Jan 2025)
item The role of a national evaluation system in promoting dairy sustainability (Jan 2025)
item Tranforming the tradition of discrete milk yield correction factors: A continuous 1-step DeLorenzo-Wiggans method (Jan 2025)
item Insights into microbial compositions of the respiratory tract of neonatal dairy calves in a longitudinal probiotic trial through 16S rRNA sequencing (Jan 2025)
item The incidence of volatile anesthesia porcine stress syndrome in pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) gives implications for physiology during anesthesia (Jan 2025)
item All-breed single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor evaluations for fertility traits in US dairy cattle (Jan 2025)
item Use of intrauterine dextrose as an alternative to systemic antibiotics for treatment of clinical metritis in dairy cattle: a microbiome perspective (Dec 2024)
item Effect of germplasm exchange strategies on genetic gain, homozygosity, and genetic diversity in dairy stud populations: A simulation study (Dec 2024)
item Validating genomic predictions for economic traits in purebred U.S. dairy heifers (Sep 2024)
item A million-cow genome-wide association study of productive life in U.S. Holstein cows (Sep 2024)
item Impact of crate design, number of heat lamps, and lying posture on the occurrence of shoulder lesions in sows (Sep 2024)
item Short communication: Artificially reared ewes cannot be distinguished from natural reared ewes based on observed maternal behavior or lamb weaning weights (Sep 2024)
item Genomic validation software: USA update including truncated MACE (Sep 2024)
item Technical options for all-breed Single Step GBLUP for US dairy cattle (Sep 2024)
item Guidelines for approximating genomic reliabilities of the single-step genomic model (Sep 2024)
item Breeding programs compared across countries, continents, and breeds (Sep 2024)
item Analysis of factors affecting daily milk yields: an initial case study in an automatic thrice-milking farm (Sep 2024)
item Dry matter intake in US Holstein cows: exploring the genomic and phenotypic impact of milk components and body weight composite (Sep 2024)
item Classification of sow postures using convolutional neural network and depth images (Jul 2024)
item Comparison of genomic merit, pedigree completeness, inbreeding, and relationships of genotyped animals across continents (Jun 2024)
item Six direct health traits for the United States: Updated variance component estimates and implementation of variance adjusted weights (Jun 2024)
item Shifting paradigms in daily milk yield correction factors: the DeLorenzo-Wiggans method revisited (Jun 2024)
item Improved tracking of recent mutations within common haplotypes causing cholesterol deficiency, muscle weakness, and BLIRD (Jun 2024)
item Multibreed single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor evaluations for fertility traits in US dairy cattle (Jun 2024)
item Genetic and genomic evaluations of milking speed and duration from automated milk recording (Jun 2024)
item Association of individual cow milk fatty acids and milk performance (Jun 2024)
item The value of a national evaluation system in promoting dairy sustainability (Jun 2024)
item Validation of genomic prediction for economic traits in heifers across five U.S. dairy breeds (Jun 2024)
item New mutation within a common haplotype is associated with calf muscle weakness in Holsteins (Jun 2024)
item Large-sample genome-wide association study of resistance to retained placenta in U.S. Holstein cows (May 2024)
item Inbreeding depression for producer-recorded udder, metabolic, and reproductive diseases in US dairy cattle (May 2024)
item Single-step genomic predictions for crossbred Holstein and Jersey cows in the United States (Mar 2024)
item Alterations of rumen and fecal microbiome in growing beef and dairy steers fed rumen protected Capsicum oleoresin (Jan 2024)
item A million-cow validation of a chromosome 14 region interacting with all chromosomes for fat percentage in U.S. Holstein cows (Jan 2024)
item Imputation accuracy from low- to medium-density SNP chips for US crossbred dairy cattle (Jan 2024)
item Determining the presence and size of shoulder lesions in sows using computer vision (Dec 2023)
item Quality and value of imputing gene tests for all animals (Dec 2023)
item Estimating test day milk yields by modeling proportional daily yields: Going beyond linearity (Dec 2023)
item International evaluations for clinical mastitis in Brown Swiss (Dec 2023)
item Inheritance of a new mutation affecting muscle weakness within a common haplotype in Holsteins (Dec 2023)
item Modeling identical twins and clones in genetic evaluations (Dec 2023)
item Effect of modelling unknown parent groups and metafounders on the historical genetic trend of fertility traits (Dec 2023)
item Updating test-day milk yield factors for use in genetic evaluations and dairy production systems: A comprehensive review (Dec 2023)
item Statistical and machine learning approaches to describe factors affecting preweaning mortality of piglets (Oct 2023)
item Evaluating fertility in the wake of embryo transfer (Oct 2023)
item System and biological effects on quantitative milking speed phenotypes from inline milk meters (Oct 2023)
item Estimation of cell type proportions from bulk RNA-Seq of porcine whole blood samples using partial reference-free deconvolution (Sep 2023)
item Identifying early-life behavior to predict mothering ability in swine utilizing NUtrack system (Sep 2023)
item Characterization of additive, dominance, and runs of homozygosity effects inbreeds of dairy cattle (Aug 2023)
item Does modeling causal relationships improve the accuracy of estimating lactation milk yields? (Jul 2023)
item Genotype by environment interaction in dairy cattle raised in California and New England (Jul 2023)
item Identification of candidate lethal haplotypes and genomic association with post-natal mortality and reproductive traits in Nellore cattle (Jun 2023)
item Quality and value of imputing gene tests for all animals (Jun 2023)
item Combined effects of milking intervals and frequencies (Jun 2023)
item Standardizing lactation yields from national data with age-parity-season-region corrections for fair comparisons across individual cows and environments (Jun 2023)
item Get test-day milk yields right: what have we learned? (Jun 2023)
item Haplotype inheritance and livability of recumbent Holstein calves (Jun 2023)
item Colostrum microbiome as a predictor of future milk solids production (Jun 2023)
item Genomic validation software: USA results (Jun 2023)
item A million-cow genome-wide association study of three fertility traits in U.S. Holstein cows (Jun 2023)
item Candidate mutation for calf recumbency in Holsteins (Jun 2023)
item Effects of different treatment approaches on microbial populations in the vaginal discharge of cows diagnosed with clinical metritis (May 2023)
item Editorial: Lactation genomics and phenomics in farm animals: Where are we at? (Apr 2023)
item Implementation of feed efficiency in Iranian Holstein breeding program (Mar 2023)
item SLEMM: million-scale genomic predictions with window-based SNP weighting (Mar 2023)
item Big data genomic analysis in dairy cattle (Jan 2023)
item Is there a genetic piece to milking speed? (Dec 2022)