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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
30
Citations
2812
World Ranking
2502
National Ranking
704

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of machine, technician, and interpreter effects on ultrasonic measures of backfat and longissimus muscle area in beef cattle.

    W. O. Herring;D. C. Miller;J. K. Bertrand;L. L. Benyshek

  • Effect of piglet birth weight on survival and quality of commercial market swine

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  • Decreased growth in Angus steers with a short TG-microsatellite allele in the P1 promoter of the growth hormone receptor gene.

    C S Hale;W O Herring;H Shibuya;M C Lucy

  • Genetic and environmental parameters for mature weight in Angus cattle.

    Miroslav Kapš;W.O. Herring;W.R. Lamberson

  • Comparison of four real-time ultrasound systems that predict intramuscular fat in beef cattle

    W O Herring;L A Kriese;J K Bertrand;J Crouch

  • Genetic study of individual preweaning mortality and birth weight in Large White piglets using threshold-linear models

    J. Arango;I. Misztal;S. Tsuruta;M. Culbertson

  • Genetic and environmental parameters for traits derived from the Brody growth curve and their relationships with weaning weight in Angus cattle

    M Kaps;W O Herring;W R Lamberson

  • Comparison of live and carcass equations predicting percentage of cutability, retail product weight, and trimmable fat in beef cattle.

    W O Herring;S E Williams;J K Bertrand;L L Benyshek

  • Genetic evaluation for beef carcass traits

    J. K. Bertrand;R. D. Green;W. O. Herring;D. W. Moser

  • Estimation of variance components including competitive effects of Large White growing gilts.

    J. Arango;I. Misztal;S. Tsuruta;M. Culbertson

  • Effect of piglet birth weight on body weight, growth, backfat, and longissimus muscle area of commercial market swine

    Unknown

  • Genetic correlations between two strains of Durocs and crossbreds from differing production environments for slaughter traits.

    B. Zumbach;I. Misztal;S. Tsuruta;J. Holl

  • Threshold-linear estimation of genetic parameters for farrowing mortality, litter size, and test performance of Large White sows

    J. Arango;I. Misztal;S. Tsuruta;M. Culbertson

  • Genetic components of heat stress in finishing pigs: development of a heat load function.

    B. Zumbach;I. Misztal;S. Tsuruta;J. P. Sanchez;J. P. Sanchez

  • A novel automated system to acquire biometric and morphological measurements and predict body weight of pigs via 3D computer vision

    Arthur F A Fernandes;João R R Dórea;Robert Fitzgerald;William Herring

  • Genetic and environmental parameters for steer ultrasound and carcass traits1

    Unknown

  • Potential gains in lifetime net merit from genomic testing of cows, heifers, and calves on commercial dairy farms

    K.A. Weigel;P.C. Hoffman;W. Herring;T.J. Lawlor

  • Genetic components of heat stress in finishing pigs: Parameter estimation.

    B. Zumbach;I. Misztal;S. Tsuruta;J. P. Sanchez;J. P. Sanchez

  • Accuracy of whole-genome sequence imputation using hybrid peeling in large pedigreed livestock populations

    Unknown

  • Genomic selection models for directional dominance: an example for litter size in pigs.

    Luis Varona;Andrés Legarra;William Herring;Zulma G. Vitezica

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