Alternativas para seleção de touros da raça Nelore considerando características múltiplas de interesse econômico / Alternatives for election of bulls of the nelore race considering characteristic multiple of economic interest

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This research was developed with genetic information of sires that belong to herds of the ?Programa de Melhoramento Genético da Raça Nelore? (PMGRN-Nelore Brasil), witch has been carried on, since 1995, a progeny test denominated ?Reprodução Programada? (RP), whose the main aim is to obtain reliable genetic values for sires market. Therefore, the Expected Progeny Difference (EPD) of 243 sires taking part of the RP from 1996 to 2003 were used with the following objectives of: 1- Evaluating the genetic merit over the years applying linear regression between the EPD and the year of the sires RP participation, for the following traits: weight at 120 and 210 days of age, direct and maternal effects (DDPP120, DDPP210, DMPP120 and DMPP210) weight and scrotal circumference at 365 and 450 days of age, direct effect (DDPP365, DDPP450, DDPE365 and DDPE450) and age at first calving (DDIPP); 2- Identifying groups of animals, whose, EPDs show similarity patterns, as well as, verifying which were the variable that showed greater power in discriminating group formations, trying to help the decisions making support in the beef cattle production system by multivariate approaches, in order to maximizing the productivity. The multivariate procedures of clusters analysis and principal components were applied in the EPDs from seven traits (DMPP120, DMPP210, DDPP365, DDPP450, DDPE365, DDPE450 and DDIPP). The analyses were performed by software Statistica (STATSOFT, 2004). The genetic trends of the EPD related to the fertility traits, DDDPE365, DDPE450 e DDIPP, showed some genetic progress of 0.051 and 0.061 cm and ? 0.026 month per year respectively, while, the DDPP450 was the trait that obtained the highest genetic gain in the growth EPDs, 1.467 kg/year. About the multivariate approaches, the k-means clustering analysis was applied and the results of three groups formation were the best option, two of them stood out in relation to values of the EPDs means. The importance of these two groups was confirmed by the analyses of principal components that associate the direct EPDs of weight and scrotal circumference values to them. The quantity of original variability kept in the first main components was 70.22%. It was observed genetic progress in the RP sires for every trait during the studied period, indicating that the selection has been effective and evidencing how important the contribution of the RP sires for the reproductive and growth traits for the Nelore breed improvement is. In this research, the classificatory and discriminatory power of cluster analyses and principal components could be verify, and certainly could contribute in the sire classification, helping the selection in the Animal Breeding Program.

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k-médias tendência genética componente principais análise de agrupamento growth traits características de crescimento cluster analysis principal components k-means. características de fertilidade fertility traits genetic trend

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