Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India
Phenotypic characterization and body biometric in 13 traits (height at withers, body length, chest girth, paunch girth, ear length, tail length, length of tail up to switch, face length, face width, horn length, circumference of horn at base, distances between pin bone and hip bone) were recorded in...
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doaj-b3203f10415346ffb56c08ecaf0bf83a2020-11-24T21:12:52ZengAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production SocietiesAsian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences1011-23671976-55172015-03-0128331131710.5713/ajas.14.045123095Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North IndiaV. VohraS. K. NiranjanA. K. MishraV. Jamuna0A. Chopra1Neelesh Sharma2Dong Kee Jeong3 Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, .India Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, .India Division of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & technology of Jammu, R.S. Pura, Jammu 181102, .India Department of Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology, Jeju National University, Jeju 690756, .KoreaPhenotypic characterization and body biometric in 13 traits (height at withers, body length, chest girth, paunch girth, ear length, tail length, length of tail up to switch, face length, face width, horn length, circumference of horn at base, distances between pin bone and hip bone) were recorded in 233 adult Gojri buffaloes from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh states of India. Traits were analysed by using varimax rotated principal component analysis (PCA) with Kaiser Normalization to explain body conformation. PCA revealed four components which explained about 70.9% of the total variation. First component described the general body conformation and explained 31.5% of total variation. It was represented by significant positive high loading of height at wither, body length, heart girth, face length and face width. The communality ranged from 0.83 (hip bone distance) to 0.45 (horn length) and unique factors ranged from 0.16 to 0.55 for all these 13 different biometric traits. Present study suggests that first principal component can be used in the evaluation and comparison of body conformation in buffaloes and thus provides an opportunity to distinguish between early and late maturing to adult, based on a small group of biometric traits to explain body conformation in adult buffaloes.http://www.ajas.info/upload/pdf/ajas-28-3-311.pdfGojriBuffaloPhenotypeCharacterizationPrincipal Component AnalysisBiometric Traits |
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V. Vohra S. K. Niranjan A. K. Mishra V. Jamuna A. Chopra Neelesh Sharma Dong Kee Jeong Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences Gojri Buffalo Phenotype Characterization Principal Component Analysis Biometric Traits |
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V. Vohra S. K. Niranjan A. K. Mishra V. Jamuna A. Chopra Neelesh Sharma Dong Kee Jeong |
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Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India |
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Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India |
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Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India |
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Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India |
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Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo () from North India |
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phenotypic characterization and multivariate analysis to explain body conformation in lesser known buffalo () from north india |
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Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies |
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Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences |
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Phenotypic characterization and body biometric in 13 traits (height at withers, body length, chest girth, paunch girth, ear length, tail length, length of tail up to switch, face length, face width, horn length, circumference of horn at base, distances between pin bone and hip bone) were recorded in 233 adult Gojri buffaloes from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh states of India. Traits were analysed by using varimax rotated principal component analysis (PCA) with Kaiser Normalization to explain body conformation. PCA revealed four components which explained about 70.9% of the total variation. First component described the general body conformation and explained 31.5% of total variation. It was represented by significant positive high loading of height at wither, body length, heart girth, face length and face width. The communality ranged from 0.83 (hip bone distance) to 0.45 (horn length) and unique factors ranged from 0.16 to 0.55 for all these 13 different biometric traits. Present study suggests that first principal component can be used in the evaluation and comparison of body conformation in buffaloes and thus provides an opportunity to distinguish between early and late maturing to adult, based on a small group of biometric traits to explain body conformation in adult buffaloes. |
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Gojri Buffalo Phenotype Characterization Principal Component Analysis Biometric Traits |
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