@conference {40732,
	title = {Genetic parameters of lifetime wool production},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {55},
	year = {1995},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {268-271},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Heritabilities and genetic correlations were estimated from the selected  and control lines of a 25-year selection experiment for hogget greasy fleece  weight (GFW). The heritability of GFW was higher in the selected than the  control line and in female hoggets (0.48) compared with males (0.32). Inter-  age genetic correlations were less than unity, and higher in fleece weight  selected animals. Average genetic correlations between hogget and adult  records were higher in ewe than ram hoggets. Together these parameters  gave co-heritability estimates (pooled across lines) for greasy hogget with  clean adult ewe fleece weights of nearly half the average magnitude in males  (0.21) compared with female (0.36). These results have important  repercussions to the design of effective selection strategies for improvement  of lifetime wool production.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Clarke JN and Dobbie JL and Hickey SM and Jones KR and Wrigglesworth AL}
}
