Background Commercial cuts yield is an important trait for beef production, which affects the
final value of the products, but its direct determination is a challenging procedure to be …

Background Positively correlated with carcass weight and animal growth, the ribeye area
(REA) and the backfat thickness (BFT) are economic important carcass traits, which impact …

The present study was carried out to estimate the genetic parameters for direct and maternal
influences on Mecheri sheep (Ovis aries) growth traits using Bayesian multi-trait animal …

The fatty acid profile of beef is a complex trait that can benefit from gene-interaction network
analysis to understand relationships among loci that contribute to phenotypic variation …

Background: In this study, we aimed to determine comprehensive maternal characteristics
associated with birth weight using Bayesian modeling. Materials and Methods: A total of 526 …

Assumptions of normality of residuals for carcass evaluation may make inferences
vulnerable to the presence of outliers, but heavy‐tail densities are viable alternatives to …

Linear mixed models (LMMs) are widely used to analyze repeated, longitudinal, or clustered
data in many disciplines, such as biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, etc …

Assumptions of normality in most animal breeding applications may make inferences
vulnerable to the presence of outliers. Heavy-tail densities are viable alternatives to normal …

Today, Linear Mixed Models (LMMs) are fitted, mostly, by assuming that random effects and
errors have Gaussian distributions, therefore using Maximum Likelihood (ML) or REML …

The present study was conducted to calculate the genetic parameters for direct and maternal
influences on Mecheri sheep growth features by Bayesian analysis using multi-trait animal …