How precise are enteric methane emission phenotypes or breeding values estimated from spot flux measures?

David Cottle; Jose Velasco; David Mayer; Roger Hegarty; Robert M Herd

How precise are enteric methane emission phenotypes or breeding values estimated from spot flux measures?

David Cottle
, Jose Velasco
, David Mayer
, Roger Hegarty
, Robert M Herd

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Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the precision or confidence interval of phenotypes and estimated breeding values for enteric methane (CH₄) emissions of individual animals estimated from spot measurements of methane flux. Components of variance of daily methane production (DMP; gCH₄/d) and methane yield (MY; gCH₄/kg DMI) from trial data were used to estimate the precision for assumed heritability values. The precision was relatively insensitive to number of measures per animal per day and to the number of days of measurement. The values of the residual components of variance (between measures, within-animals, within-days) are high compared to between animal and between day variance but the confidence intervals for EBVs for DMP and MY estimated from spot flux measures are about 20% each side of the mean, which should be adequate for industry implementation in breeding schemes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Editors	Kim Bunter, Tim Byrne, Hans Daetwyler, Susanne Hermesch, Kathryn Kemper, James Kijas, David Nation, Wayne Pitchford, Suzanne Rowe, Matt Shaffer, Alison van Eenennaam
Place of Publication	Armidale, Australia
Publisher	Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Pages	421-424
Volume	21
ISBN (Print)	9780646945545
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	AAABG 2015: 21st Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics - Lorne, Australia Duration: 28 Sept 2015 → 30 Sept 2015

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Conference	AAABG 2015: 21st Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
City	Lorne, Australia
Period	28/09/15 → 30/09/15

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Animal Breeding

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Cottle, D., Velasco, J., Mayer, D., Hegarty, R., & Herd, R. M. (2015). How precise are enteric methane emission phenotypes or breeding values estimated from spot flux measures? In K. Bunter, T. Byrne, H. Daetwyler, S. Hermesch, K. Kemper, J. Kijas, D. Nation, W. Pitchford, S. Rowe, M. Shaffer, & A. van Eenennaam (Eds.), Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (Vol. 21, pp. 421-424). Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG). http://www.aaabg.org/aaabghome/AAABG21papers/Cottle21421.pdf

Cottle, David ; Velasco, Jose ; Mayer, David et al. / How precise are enteric methane emission phenotypes or breeding values estimated from spot flux measures?. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. editor / Kim Bunter ; Tim Byrne ; Hans Daetwyler ; Susanne Hermesch ; Kathryn Kemper ; James Kijas ; David Nation ; Wayne Pitchford ; Suzanne Rowe ; Matt Shaffer ; Alison van Eenennaam. Vol. 21 Armidale, Australia : Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), 2015. pp. 421-424

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Cottle, D, Velasco, J, Mayer, D, Hegarty, R & Herd, RM 2015, How precise are enteric methane emission phenotypes or breeding values estimated from spot flux measures? in K Bunter, T Byrne, H Daetwyler, S Hermesch, K Kemper, J Kijas, D Nation, W Pitchford, S Rowe, M Shaffer & A van Eenennaam (eds), Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. vol. 21, Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), Armidale, Australia, pp. 421-424, AAABG 2015: 21st Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Lorne, Australia, 28/09/15. <http://www.aaabg.org/aaabghome/AAABG21papers/Cottle21421.pdf>

How precise are enteric methane emission phenotypes or breeding values estimated from spot flux measures? / Cottle, David; Velasco, Jose; Mayer, David et al.
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. ed. / Kim Bunter; Tim Byrne; Hans Daetwyler; Susanne Hermesch; Kathryn Kemper; James Kijas; David Nation; Wayne Pitchford; Suzanne Rowe; Matt Shaffer; Alison van Eenennaam. Vol. 21 Armidale, Australia: Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), 2015. p. 421-424.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review