Recent Conference Papers

25th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Perth, Western Australia, 25-28 July 2023:

Alexandri, P; Walkom, S F; Stewart, S; McGilchrist, P; Steel, C and Brown, D J (2023). Merits of using new intramuscular fat measurement technologies in genetic evaluation of Australian lamb. pp. 302

Aliloo, H; Walmsley, B J; Donoghue, K A and Clark, S A (2023). Detection of signatures of selection in Australian beef cattle. pp. 194

Brown, D J; Gurman, P M and Swan, A A (2023) Genetic benchmarking of Maternal sheep flocks using genomic testing. pp. 43

Bunz, A M G; Bunter, K L; Harper, J; Morrison, R S; Luxford, B G and Hermesch, S (2023). Genotype by trait-specific season interactions for farrowing rate and average piglet birthweight, pp. 115

de las Heras-Saldana, S; Gurman, P M; Swan, A A and Brown, D J (2023). Genetic parameters and lambda values for post-weaning production traits in Merino sheep, pp. 318

de las Heras-Saldana, S; Suarez, L A; Wahinya, P K; Bunter, K L and Brown, D J (2023). Identification of climate-resilient Merino sheep using satellite images, pp. 394

Dehnavi, E; Swan, A A; Smith, J L; Bird-Gardiner, T L; Burbidge, G and Brown, D J (2023). The value of research and industry flocks for predicting breech strike resistance in Australian Merino sheep, pp. 342

Dehnavi, E; Swan, A A; Ramsay, A M M; Burbidge, G and Brown, D J (2023). Preliminary genetic parameters for flystrike and its association with

production traits in Australian Merino sheep, pp. 354

Donoghue, K A; Rippon, R; Wolcott, M L; Moore, K L; Clark, S A and Walmsley, B J (2023). Age at puberty, days to calving

and first parity return to oestrus in Australian temperate beef breeds, pp. 55

Ferdosi, M H; Masoodi, S and Khansefid, M (2023). Heritability and repeatability of paternal haplotype recombination rate in beef cattle autosomes, pp. 222

Fitzgerald, P T; Clayton, E H; Donaldson, A J; Brown, D J; Oddy, V H and van der Werf, J H J (2023). Towards selecting for lower methane sheep, pp. 178

Granleese, T; Mortimer, S I; Atkinson, T; Refshauge, G; Bird-Gardiner, T; Haynes, F; Brown, D J; Alexandri, P and Walkom, S F (2023). Measured Goats in the Rangelands: An overview of a meat goat reference population, pp. 230

Gudex, B W; Williams, P J and Walmsley, B J (2023). Australian beef cattle breeding objectives, pp. 103

Gurman, P M; Gore, K P and Brown, D J (2023). Utility of pooled DNA samples for estimating a flock profile, pp. 334

Gurman, P M; Li, L; Jeyaruban, M G; Johnston, D J; Girard, C J and Swan, A A (2023). Validation of calving ease EBVs examining the impact of genetic groups and single-step on predictive ability, pp. 378

Hatcher, S; Robertson, S; Brown, D J and Bunter, K L (2023). Match birthweight ASBVs to flock fecundity for lamb survival, pp. 134

Hodge, M J; de las Heras-Saldana, S; Rindfleish, S J; Stephen, C P and Pant, S D (2023). Genome wide association study and heritability estimates for ram semen traits, pp. 282

Jeyaruban, M G and Johnston, M G (2023). New module for prediction of reproductive traits EBV in BREEDPLAN, pp. 59

Johnston, D J; Ferdosi, M H; Connors, N K; Cook, J A; Girard, C J and Swan, A A (2023). BREEDPLAN single-step genomic evaluations

delivers increased accuracies across all breeds and EBVs, pp. 111

Johnston, D J; Dayman, M; Grant, T P; Hubbard, K; Goodwin, K; Doughty, A K and Cook, J A (2023). Remote sensor collars measure age at puberty in tropical beef heifers in northern Australia, pp. 246

Keshavarzi, H; Dehnavi, E and Small, A (2023). Estimate the genetic parameters and analysis of culling reasons in Iranian Holstein dairy cattle, pp. 314

Le, S V; de las Heras-Saldana, S; Alexandri, P; Olmo, L; Walkden-Brown, S W and van der Werf, J H J (2023). Genetic diversity of domestic goats from

Central Laos, pp. 250

Manzari, Z; Johnston, D J; Connors, H K and Ferdosi, M H (2023). Signatures of positive selection for scrotal circumference in three beef cattle breeds, pp. 107

McMillan, A J; Walkom, S F and Brown, D J (2023). Evolution of sheep breeds within LAMBPLAN and the rise of the Composites, pp. 31

Meyer, K (2023). Effects of selection and data truncation on estimates of genetic parameters obtained fitting a single-step

model, pp. 39

Miller, S P (2023). Livestock breeding, where have we been and what lies ahead? pp. 10

Moghaddar, N; Swan, A A and van der Werf, J H J (2023). Multi-trait genome wide association meta-analysis of body weight, carcase composition and eating quality traits in Australian sheep, pp. 270

Moore, K L; Gurman, P M and Johnston, D J (2023. Application of an empirical approach for predicting accuracy for genomic evaluations, pp. 146

Moore, K L; Walkom, S F; Siddell, J P and Walmsley, B J 2023). Quantifying the linkage between genetics represented in the Southern Multi-Breed project and the wider Australian beef populations, pp. 330

Mortimer, S I; Egerton-Warburton, K L; Bird-Gardiner, T L and Swan, A A (2023). Ewe genotype effects in genetic evaluation of Merino fleece traits across ages, pp. 27

Mortimer, S I; Holman, B W B; Fowler, S M; Alvarenga, T I R C; Hopkins, D L; Egerton-Warburton, K L; Smith, J L; Hine, B C and Swan, A A (2023). Relationships of sire breeding values for Merino production traits with eating quality of lamb, pp. 214

Santos, D J A; Connors, N K; Gurman, P M; Ferdosi, M H; Miller, S P and Swan, A A (2023). Assessing the value of metafounders for genomic prediction in Australian Simmental beef cattle, pp. 158

Sharif-Islam, M; Henryon, M; van der Werf, J H J; Sørensen, A C; Chu, T T; Wood, B J and Hermesch, S (2023). A comparison between the use of pedigree or genomic relationships to control inbreeding in optimum-contribution selection, pp. 190

Smith, E G; Walkom, S F; Brown, D J and Clark, S A (2023). Fibre diameter variation as a measure of resilience in sheep, pp. 63

Vargovic, L; Moore, K L; Johnston, D J; Jeyaruban, M G; Girard, C J; Cook, J A; Torres-Vázquez, J A and Miller, S P (2023). Remodelling the genetic evaluation of NFI in beef cattle - Part 1: Developing an equivalent genetic model, pp. 382

Vargovic, L; Moore, K L; Johnston, D J; Jeyaruban, M G; Girard, C J; Cook, J A; Torres-Vázquez, J A and Miller, S P (2023). Remodelling the genetic evaluation of NFI in beef cattle - Part 2: Shortening the length of the feed intake test, pp. 386

Wahinya, P K; Brown, D J; Walkom, S F; Bird-Gardiner, T; Clarke, B E; Smith, J L and Swan, A A (2023). Preliminary evaluation of the impact of

visual traits on lifetime ewe performance, pp. 47

Wahinya, P K and Ferdosi, M H (2023). Imputation accuracy for missing alleles in crossbred beef cattle, pp. 162

Walkom, S F; Alexandri, P; Connaughton, S; Gardner, G; Williams, A and Brown, D J (2023). Merits of using DEXA to measure lean meat yield for the genetic evaluation of Australian lamb, pp. 306

Walkom, S F; Duff, C J; Girard, C J and Moore, K L (2023).  Longevity of reference populations in a trans-Tasman genetic evaluation: Review of the Angus Sire Benchmarking Program, pp. 322

Walmsley, B J; Moore, K L; Walkom, S F; Clark, S A; Granleese, T and Donoghue, K A (2023). Progress of the Southern Multi-Breed Resource Population: Hard-to-measure phenotypes to drive genomic selection, pp. 310

Waters, D L; van der Werf, J H J; Brown, D J; Walkom, S F and Clark, S A (2023). Validation of breeding values for robustness in Australian Merinos, pp. 298

Wolcott, M L; Johnston, D J; Jeyaruban, M G and Girard, C J (2023).  Development of a new BREEDPLAN objective body composition EBV to allow selection to improve cow survival, pp. 346

74th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Lyon, France, 26 August –

1 September 2023:

Brown, D J; Alexandri, P; Walkom, S F; Pethick, D W; McGilchrist, P; Stewart, S Pitchford, W S and Gardner, G E (2023).  Objective carcase measurement from commercial supply chains contributing to genetic

improvement p. 315

Payne, C E; Paganoni, B; Walkom, S F; Gardner, G E; and Brown, D J (2023).  Genetic variation of new sheep traits measured by dual energy Xray absorptiometry, p. 382

Smith, E G; Walkom, S F; Brown, D J and Clark, S A (2023).  Defining resilience traits in sheep from fibre diameter variation of wool, p. 172

Walkom, S F; Brown, D J and van der Werf, J H J (2023).  An Australian sheep genomic reference to meet the evolving breeding objectives of industry, p. 675

Wicki, M; Brown, D J; Gurman, P M; Raoul, J; Legarra, A and Swan, A A (2023).  Combined genomic evaluation of Australian Merino and Dohne Merino sheep populations, p. 403