B.J. Ducro

Best Publications

• Genetic Parameters for carcass composition and pork quality estimated in a commercial production chain

  H. J. van Wijk;D. J. G. Arts;J. O. Matthews;M. Webster

  200
  Citations

• Preslaughter stress and muscle energy largely determine pork quality at two commercial processing plants.

  E. Hambrecht;J. J. Eissen;R. I. J. Nooijen;B. J. Ducro

  191
  Citations

• Direct, maternal and nurse sow genetic effects on farrowing-, pre-weaning- and total piglet survival

  E.F. Knol;B.J. Ducro;J.A.M. van Arendonk;T. van der Lende

  167
  Citations

• Optimization of Dairy Cattle Breeding Programs for Different Environments with Genotype by Environment Interaction

  H.A. Mulder;R.F. Veerkamp;B.J. Ducro;J.A.M. van Arendonk

  162
  Citations

• Genetic relations of movement and free-jumping traits with dressage and show-jumping performance in competition of Dutch Warmblood horses

  B.J. Ducro;E.P.C. Koenen;J.M.F.M. van Tartwijk;H. Bovenhuis

  118
  Citations

• Possible negative effects of inbreeding on semen quality in Shetland pony stallions.

  P. van Eldik;E.H. van der Waaij;B.J. Ducro;A.W. Kooper

  107
  Citations

• Genetic Parameters for Cystic Ovarian Disease in Dutch Black and White Dairy Cattle

  G.A. Hooijer;R.B.F. Lubbers;B.J. Ducro;J.A.M. van Arendonk

  98
  Citations

• Energy and protein metabolism between 3 and 6 weeks of age of male broiler chickens selected for growth rate or for improved food efficiency.

  Johan Buyse;Hervé Michels;J Vloeberghs;P Saevels

  81
  Citations

• Identification of environmental factors affecting the prevalence of insect bite hypersensitivity in Shetland ponies and Friesian horses in The Netherlands.

  E.M. van Grevenhof;B.J. Ducro;H.C.M. Heuven;P. Bijma

  74
  Citations

• Genetic and phenotypic correlations between feather pecking behavior, stress response, immune response, and egg quality traits in laying hens.

  A. J. Buitenhuis;T. B. Rodenburg;P. H. Wissink;J. Visscher

  73
  Citations

• Rapid chilling cannot prevent inferior pork quality caused by high preslaughter stress.

  E. Hambrecht;J. J. Eissen;W. J. H. de Klein;B. J. Ducro

  70
  Citations

• Comparing regression, naive Bayes, and random forest methods in the prediction of individual survival to second lactation in Holstein cattle.

  E.M.M. van der Heide;R.F. Veerkamp;M.L. van Pelt;C. Kamphuis

  64
  Citations

• Genome‐wide SNP association–based localization of a dwarfism gene in Friesian dwarf horses

  N. Orr;W. Back;W. Back;J. Gu;P. Leegwater

  61
  Citations

• Genetic variances, heritabilities and maternal effects on body weight, breast meat yield, meat quality traits and the shape of the growth curve in turkey birds.

  Muhammad L. Aslam;John W.M. Bastiaansen;Richard P.M.A. Crooijmans;Bart J. Ducro

  44
  Citations

• Genotype-by-environment interaction in Holstein heifer fertility traits using single-step genomic reaction norm models

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  44
  Citations

• Dwarfism with joint laxity in Friesian horses is associated with a splice site mutation in B4GALT7.

  Peter A. Leegwater;Manon Vos-Loohuis;Bart J. Ducro;Iris J. Boegheim

  42
  Citations

• Selection strategies for body weight and reduced ascites susceptibility in broilers

  A. Pakdel;P. Bijma;B.J. Ducro;H. Bovenhuis

  36
  Citations

• Copy number variations in Friesian horses and genetic risk factors for insect bite hypersensitivity.

  Anouk Schurink;Vinicius H. da Silva;Vinicius H. da Silva;Brandon D. Velie;Bert W. Dibbits

  31
  Citations

• Using an Inbred Horse Breed in a High Density Genome-Wide Scan for Genetic Risk Factors of Insect Bite Hypersensitivity (IBH).

  Brandon D. Velie;Merina Shrestha;Liesbeth Franҫois;Anouk Schurink

  31
  Citations

• Sexual dimorphism in livestock species selected for economically important traits

  E M M van der Heide;Daniela A L Lourenco;C Y Chen;W O Herring

  29
  Citations