A comparison of bull selection methods showed that a method that selects the best bull from all available bulls for each current or future cow, based on its calf's APR minus F depression, is better than bull selection methods based on APR alone, APR adjusted for mean F of prospective progeny after random mating and mean APR adjusted for the relationship between the selected bulls.
This is combined with information on genetic merit of bulls to compare bull selection methods that minimise F and maximise breeding value for profit (called APR in Australia).
Genomic predictions accuracy and bias for the Jersey validation population using different combinations of reference datasets (bulls or bulls and cows), method of prediction (GBLUP or BayesR), breed composition in the reference population (single or both breeds), and with or without inclusion of the polygenic term in the prediction.
Genomic predictions accuracy and bias for the Holstein validation population using different combinations of reference datasets (bulls or bulls and cows), method of prediction (GBLUP or BayesR), breed composition in the reference population (single or both breeds), and with or without inclusion of the polygenic term in the prediction.
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To prevent venereal SBV transmission, sensitive PCR testing of semen batches from SBV-infected bulls is the method of choice (1, 10 ).
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Accuracies were calculated for many combinations of dataset (bulls or bulls and cows), for each method (GBLUP or BayesR), breed (single or both breeds), and with or without inclusion of the polygenic term in the prediction.
Expression of the HR was determined in all RIL, F2 and F1 populations by infiltrating Xcv into leaves using a needless 1-mL syringe according to the methods of Bull et al. The HR was observed 18 48 h after infiltration as light-brown papery lesions at the infiltration site (Supplementary Figure S1).
We also applied SM-ABLUP, which is the same as SM-GBLUP except that the genomic relationship matrix is replaced by the pedigree-based relationship matrix A. Table 3 shows the correlations between 2013 DYD and 2007 EBV within the VAL set of bulls for the methods based on a two-step sire model (standard errors are from 10,000 bootstrapping samples [ 20]).
For all 16 traits, more than 9% of the top 300 bulls based on the adjusted GBLUP method differed from the top 300 bulls based on the two single-step blending methods.
