The objective of this study was to compare four Spanish maternal lines of rabbits (A, V. H and LP) on different criteria but selected for litter size at weaning, since their foundation until present for 39, 35, 16 and 4 ...
[EN] Uterine capacity (UC), defined as the total number of kits from unilaterally ovariectomized does at birth, has a high genetic correlation with litter size. The aim of our research was to identify genomic regions ...
García Quirós, Ana; Arnau Bonachera, Alberto; Penadés, Mariola; Cervera Fras, Mª Concepción; Martinez-Paredes, Eugenio; Ródenas Martínez, Luis; Selva, Laura; Viana, David; Corpa, Juan Manuel; Pascual Amorós, Juan José(Elsevier, 2014-10-15)
[EN] The present work evaluates how a rabbit line selected for robustness and two other lines
selected for productive criteria, could have affected the physiological maturity and blood
leukocytes counts of young rabbits ...
Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; López de Maturana, E.; Noguera, J. L.; Varona, L.(American Society of Animal Science, 2010-11)
[EN] We developed and implemented change-point recursive models and compared them with a linear recursive model and a standard mixed model (SMM), in the scope of the relationship between litter size (LS) and number of ...
[EN] The aim of the present study was to analyse the influence of year, season and parity on productive and reproductive performances in 110 Soviet Chinchilla and 64 White Giant rabbits under tropical climatic conditions ...
[EN] The effects of mitogenome variation on economically important traits have been reported in a number of domestic animal species. In this study, the first of its kind on rabbits, we have performed the estimation of the ...
Hervás Rivero, Carlos(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-07-30)
[ES] La depresión endogámica afecta en mayor medida a los caracteres reproductivos, como el tamaño de camada en porcino. Recientemente, se ha demostrado que el determinismo de la depresión endogámica es heterogéneo a lo ...
[EN] The reproductive traits of 276 rabbit does belonging to an intercross generation of two synthetic INRAlines, which differed by their genotypes at the k-casein locus being either AA or AB, were recorded at birth andat ...
Ramadan, S.I.; Manaa, E.A.; El-Attrony, M.E.; EL Nagar, A.G.(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-09-30)
[EN] The objectives of the present study were 1) to evaluate the polymorphism of growth hormone(GH), insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and progesterone receptor (PGR) genes in Sinai Gabali rabbits, and 2) to assess their ...
Ferrian, Selena; Blas Ferrer, Enrique; Larsen, T.; Sánchez Serrano, Juan Pablo; Friggens, Nicholas Charles; Corpa, J. M.; Baselga Izquierdo, Manuel; Pascual Amorós, Juan José(Elsevier, 2013-06)
To evaluate differences in maternal lines to the immune response of reproductive rabbit does, a total of 64 animals of two different lines: (1) founded for hyper-longevity and litter size criteria (LP) and (2) selected for ...
Argente, M. J.; Calle, E. W.; Garcia, M. L.; Blasco Mateu, Agustín(Blackwell Publishing, 2017)
[EN] A divergent selection experiment for the environmental variability of litter size (Ve) over seven generations was carried out in rabbits at the University Miguel Hernandez of Elche. The Ve was estimated as the phenotypic ...
Mohamed Ragab, Mohamed; Sánchez Serrano, Juan Pablo; Mínguez Balaguer, Carlos; Baselga Izquierdo, Manuel(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-07)
Litter size is essential for an efficient production of rabbit meat . A diallel cross between four maternal lines was carrie d ou t and the analysis of the components of litter size has been already done. This paper ...
[EN] This study evaluated the effect of female body weight at conception (FWC), season of mating (SM), type of mating (TM) and litter size at birth (LSB) on the litter performance in a heterogeneous Nigerian population of ...
Teixeira, Paulo Sérgio dos Santos; Moura, Ana Silvia A.M.T.; Wechsler, Francisco S.; Fernandes, Simone; Mattaraia, Vânia G.M.(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-06-28)
[EN] The objective was to evaluate the effect of the interaction of diet density in the rearing phase×diet density in the reproductive phase on carcass composition, pregnancy rate, and litter performance of primiparous ...
Martínez Álvaro, Marina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-09-24)
[EN] The aim of this study was to carry out a divergent selection experiment directly by residual variance of litter size in rabbits, as an observed trait, and to study the existence of a genetic component controlling the ...
Vicente Antón, José Salvador; Llobat, L.; Jiménez Trigos, María Estrella; Lavara García, Raquel; Marco Jiménez, Francisco(Wiley, 2013-06)
[EN] The aim of this work was to study the influence of embryonic and maternal genotype of two lines of rabbits selected by growth rate (line R) and litter size at weaning (line A) on prenatal survival. Embryos were recovered ...
The purpose of this study is to use demographic and litter size data on four Spanish maternal lines of rabbits (A, V, H and LP), as a case study, in order to: (i) estimate the effective population size of the lines, as a ...
[EN] Embryo cryopreservation is a valuable tool for maintaining genetic variability and preserving breeds and lines, allowing to assess the response to selection and enabling genetic diffusion. This study aimed to evaluate ...
[EN] Pannon White nulliparous and multiparous does were divided into two groups and inseminated at 8:00 a.m. (n = 587) or at 8:00 p.m. (n = 548). On the basis of 390 and 346 kindlings respectively, it was established that ...
[EN] In rabbits, ovulation rate is, together with prenatal survival, one of the main limiting factors for litter size. Both components are affected by several factors related to females and their environment. Thus, ...