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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">AAB</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Archives Animal Breeding</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">AAB</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Arch. Anim. Breed.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2363-9822</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>FBN Dummerstorf</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
</publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/aab-54-297-2011</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Genetic parameters and genetic trends of reproduction traits in synthetic Pannon rabbits using repeatability and multi-trait animal models</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nagy</surname>
<given-names>I.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Radnai</surname>
<given-names>I.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nagyné-Kiszlinger</surname>
<given-names>H.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Farkas</surname>
<given-names>J.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Szendrő</surname>
<given-names>Z.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Animal Science, University of Kaposvár, Kaposvár, Hungary</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2011</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>54</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>297</fpage>
<lpage>307</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2011 I. Nagy et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
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<p>Genetic parameters and genetic trends of total number of born kits (TNB), and number of
kits born alive (NBA) were estimated in Pannon White and Pannon Ka rabbits for the first
four parities. REML and BLUP procedures were applied using repeatability and multi-trait
animal models (PEST and VCE software). Heritability estimates were low for both traits and
breeds and ranged between 0.060.43&amp;ndash;0.07 (0.010.43&amp;ndash;0.02) and 0.040.43&amp;ndash;0.06 (0.020.43&amp;ndash;0.02) for TNB and NBA,
respectively (standard errors of estimates are given in brackets). The estimated permanent
environmental effects showed higher relative importance compared to the additive genetic
effects and they ranged between 0.070.43&amp;ndash;0.13 (0.010.43&amp;ndash;0.02) and 0.080.43&amp;ndash;0.14 (0.010.43&amp;ndash;0.02) for TNB and
NBA, respectively. High genetic correlation coefficients were found between TNB and NBA
(0.97±0.02, 0.96±0.02) for Pannon White and Pannon Ka, respectively. The genetic correlation
coefficients estimated between TNB and between NBA of the successive parities (as separate
traits) ranged between 0.640.43&amp;ndash;0.97 (0.040.43&amp;ndash;0.11) and 0.560.43&amp;ndash;0.99 (0.030.43&amp;ndash;0.10) for Pannon White and
Pannon Ka, respectively. The estimated genetic trends for TNB and NBA were negligible for
the Pannon White and small (0.030.43&amp;ndash;0.02 [0.010.43&amp;ndash;0.01]) for Pannon Ka. The mean squared errors
(MSE) of the repeatability and multi-trait models were similar but the correlation coefficients
of between the observed and predicted values were lower for the multi-trait (0.270.43&amp;ndash;0.61) than
for the repeatability models (0.43&amp;ndash;0.65).</p>
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