›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 1530-1537.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2015.06.031

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Genetic Parameter Estimation and Affecting Factor Analysis of Reproduction Traits in Large White Sow

SHI Hui-bi1, WANG Li-gang1, LIANG Jing1, YANG Hou-de2, LIAO Ling-ling2, CHEN Zhao3, LIU Xin1, ZHAO Ke-bin1, ZHANG Long-chao1, YAN Hua1, WANG Li-xian1   

  1. 1. Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China;
    2. Guangxi Kexinyuan Breeding Pigs Limited Liability Company, Nanning 530001, China;
    3. Guangxi Institute of Animal Science, Nanning 530001, China
  • Received:2014-11-07 Online:2015-06-20 Published:2015-07-23

Abstract: In this study,7 945 litter records from 2 904 Large White sows were used to determine the effect of parity,mating season and the classified gestation length on total number born (TNB),number born alive (NBA),number healthy birth (NHB),number weak birth (NWB),deform fetus,number born dead (NBD),mummy fetus and stillbirth. Genetic parameters and genetic correlation of the above reproduction traits were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood (REML) procedure.The results indicated that the parity had non-significant effect on deform fetus (P=0.2619) and mummy fetus (P=0.4639),but had significant effect on other 7 reproduction traits (P <0.01).The effect of mating season on gestation length,NBA,NWB,mummy fetus,NBD and NHB were highly significant (P <0.01),while mating season effect on deform fetus was not significant (P=0.3993).Moreover,the effect of mating season on TNB and stillbirth were significant (P <0.05).Effect of different gestation length classification was significant on mummy fetus (P <0.05),and was highly significant on the other 7 traits (P <0.01).The gestation length got the highest heritability,at 0.34,while others below 0.2 as low heritability traits.There was a negative genetic correlation (rg=-0.10) between gestation length and TNB,while a strong positive genetic correlation exists among TNB,NBA and NHB (rg >0.80).The genetic correlation between gestation length and other reproductive traits was low,the highest one appears between gestation length and deform fetus reached -0.17.We concluded that the gestation length was medium heritability trait,it was influenced not only by environment factors (such as parity,mating season) but also reproductive traits like TNB,and gestation length could be used as an indirect indicator in pig production.

Key words: Large White sow; gestation length; reproduction traits; genetic parameters

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