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Vincent Ducrocq is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans predominantly in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Ducrocq's work covers several specific subfields including Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, Plant Science, and Ecology. Their research topics primarily focus on genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, reproductive physiology in livestock, effects of environmental stressors on livestock, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, livestock management and performance improvement, ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology, and genetics and plant breeding.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in various venues, with frequent appearances in the following journals:

  • Journal of Dairy Science
  • Genetics Selection Evolution
  • animal
  • Tropical Animal Health and Production
  • Italian Journal of Animal Science

Some of the recent papers authored on topics related to dairy science and livestock genetics include:

  • Invited review: Disentangling residual feed intake-Insights and approaches to make it more fit for purpose in the modern context, 2021, Journal of Dairy Science
  • Exploring simultaneous perturbation profiles in milk yield and body weight reveals a diversity of animal responses and new opportunities to identify resilience proxies, 2020, Journal of Dairy Science
  • Genomic evaluation of milk yield in a smallholder crossbred dairy production system in India, 2021, Genetics Selection Evolution
  • A new method to estimate residual feed intake in dairy cattle using time series data, 2020, animal
  • Semen production and semen quality of indigenous buffalo breeds under hot semiarid climatic conditions in India, 2020, Tropical Animal Health and Production

Vincent Ducrocq has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • N.C. Friggens
  • Pauline Martin
  • Didier Boichard
  • Thierry Tribout
  • Marimuthu Swaminathan

In addition to journal articles, Ducrocq has contributed to book publications. One such work is "Génétique des animaux d'élevage," published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Effect of Diseases on the Culling of Holstein Dairy Cows in New York State

    Y.T. Gröhn;S.W. Eicker;V. Ducrocq;J.A. Hertl

  • Genetic susceptibility and transmission factors in scrapie: detailed analysis of an epidemic in a closed flock of Romanov

    J.-M. Elsen;Y. Amigues;F. Schelcher;V. Ducrocq

  • A common reference population from four European Holstein populations increases reliability of genomic predictions

    Mogens S. Lund;Adrianus Pw de Roos;Alfred G de Vries;Tom Druet

  • A Bayesian analysis of mixed survival models

    V Ducrocq;G Casella

  • Length of Productive Life of Dairy Cows. 1. Justification of a Weibull Model

    V. Ducrocq;R.L. Quaas;E.J. Pollak;G. Casella

  • Modeling lactation curves and estimation of genetic parameters for first lactation test-day records of French Holstein cows.

    Tom Druet;F. Jaffrezic;D. Boichard;V. Ducrocq

  • Effect of Disease on Length of Productive Life of French Holstein Dairy Cows Assessed by Survival Analysis

    F. Beaudeau;V. Ducrocq;C. Fourichon;H. Seegers

  • Heritability, Reliability of Genetic Evaluations and Response to Selection in Proportional Hazard Models

    M.H. Yazdi;P.M. Visscher;V. Ducrocq;R. Thompson

  • Length of Productive Life of Dairy Cows. 2. Variance Component Estimation and Sire Evaluation

    V. Ducrocq;R.L. Quaas;E.J. Pollak;G. Casella

  • Statistical analysis of length of productive life for dairy cows of the Normande breed.

    V. Ducrocq

  • Rainbow trout resistance to bacterial cold-water disease is moderately heritable and is not adversely correlated with growth.

    J. T. Silverstein;R. L. Vallejo;Y. Palti;T. D. Leeds

  • High-density marker imputation accuracy in sixteen French cattle breeds

    Chris Hozé;Chris Hozé;Marie-Noëlle Fouilloux;Eric Venot;Eric Venot;François Guillaume;François Guillaume

  • Genomic selection in French dairy cattle

    Didier Boichard;Francois Guillaume;A. Baur;Pascal Croiseau

  • Evidence of biases in genetic evaluations due to genomic preselection in dairy cattle

    C. Patry;V. Ducrocq

  • Relationships between type and longevity in the Holstein breed.

    Hélène Larroque;Vincent Ducrocq

  • Analysis of Survival in Dairy Cows with Supplementary Data on Type Scores and Housing Systems from a Region of Northwest Germany

    A. Buenger;V. Ducrocq;H.H. Swalve

  • Effect of imputing markers from a low-density chip on the reliability of genomic breeding values in Holstein populations

    Romain Dassonneville;R.F. Brøndum;T. Druet;Sébastien Fritz

  • Effect of health disorders on culling in dairy cows: a review and a critical discussion

    François Beaudeau;Henri Seegers;Vincent Ducrocq;Christine Fourichon

  • Genetic Analysis of Herd Life in Canadian Dairy Cattle on a Lactation Basis Using a Weibull Proportional Hazards Model

    A. Sewalem;A. Sewalem;G.J. Kistemaker;V. Ducrocq;B.J. Van Doormaal

  • Computational strategies for national integration of phenotypic, genomic, and pedigree data in a single-step best linear unbiased prediction.

    A. Legarra;V. Ducrocq

  • Survival analysis of longevity in dairy cattle on a lactation basis

    Anki Roxström;Vincent Ducrocq;Erling Strandberg

  • Estimation of genetic parameters for test day records of dairy traits in the first three lactations

    Tom Druet;Florence Jaffrézic;Vincent Ducrocq

  • Efficiency of multi-breed genomic selection for dairy cattle breeds with different sizes of reference population

    C. Hozé;Sébastien Fritz;Florence Phocas;Didier Boichard

  • Genetic characteristics and evolution of semen production of young Normande bulls

    V. Ducrocq;P. Humblot

  • Female fertility in French dairy breeds: current situation and strategies for improvement.

    Anne Barbat;Pascale Le Mézec;Vincent Ducrocq;Sophie Mattalia

  • Implementation of a routine breeding value evaluation for longevity of dairy cows using survival analysis techniques.

    Vincent Ducrocq;Johann Sölkner

  • Accounting for genomic pre-selection in national BLUP evaluations in dairy cattle

    Clotilde Patry;Vincent Ducrocq

  • Genetic parameters of type appraisal in Saanen and Alpine goats

    E. Manfredi;A. Piacere;P. Lahaye;V. Ducrocq

  • Genomic selection in domestic animals: Principles, applications and perspectives.

    Didier Boichard;Vincent Ducrocq;Pascal Croiseau;Sébastien Fritz

  • Genomic Selection In French Dairy Cattle

    Didier Boichard;Francois Guillaume;A. Baur;Pascal Croiseau

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Boichard
Didier Boichard University of Paris-Saclay
Esa Mäntysaari
Esa Mäntysaari Natural Resources Institute Finland
Johann Sölkner
Johann Sölkner BOKU University
Luc Delaby
Luc Delaby Institut Agro, France
Guosheng Su
Guosheng Su Aarhus University
Catherine Larzul
Catherine Larzul Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Andres Legarra
Andres Legarra University of Georgia
Nicolas Gengler
Nicolas Gengler Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Christine Fourichon
Christine Fourichon INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
J.B. van Wyk
J.B. van Wyk University of Johannesburg

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