Scientific journals

Arthur, P.F. and Herd, R.M.. 2006. Selection for growth and feed efficiency – The Australian experience. Journal of Integrated Field Science. 3:59-66. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture (accepted).

Cafe, L., Hennessy, D.W., Hearnshaw, H., Morris, S.G. and Greenwood, P.L. (2006). Influences of nutrition during pregnancy and lactation on birth weights and growth to weaning of calves sired by Piedmontese or Wagyu bulls. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46:245-255

Cafe, L.M, Hearnshaw, H., Hennessy, D.W. and Greenwood, P.L. (2006). Growth and carcass characteristics at heavy market weights of Wagyu-sired steers following slow or rapid growth to weaning. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46:951-955

Fulkerson, W.J., Bachia, I., Dobos, R.C., Nandra, K.S., and Horadagoda, A.(2006) The effect of grain species and grain processing on the efficiency of feed utilisation and microbial protein synthesis in sheep. Livestock Science (revised and submitted)

Gardner, G.E., Pethick, D.W., Greenwood, P.L. and Hegarty, R.S. (2006). The effect of genotype and plane of nutrition on rate of pH decline post mortem and the expression of enzymatic markers of metabolism in lamb carcases. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 57:661-670

Greenwood, P.L., Cafe, L., Hearnshaw, H., Hennessy, D.W. and Morris, S.G. (2006). Long-term consequences of birth weight and growth to weaning for carcass, yield and beef quality characteristics of Piedmontese- and Wagyu-sired cattle. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46:257-269

Greenwood, P.L., Davis, J., Gaunt, G.M. and Ferrier, G.R. (2006) Influences on the loin and cellular characteristics of the m. longissimus lumborum of Australian Poll Dorset-sired lambs. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 57:1-12

Greenwood, P.L., Gardner, G.G. and Hegarty R.S. (2006) Myofibre characteristics are influenced by sire estimated breeding values and pastoral nutritional system. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 57:627-639

Greenwood, P.L., Gardner, G.G. and Hegarty R.S. (2006). Indices of cellular development in muscles of lambs are influenced by sire estimated breeding values and pastoral nutritional system. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 57:651-659

Gresham, M., Newman, R.E., Sheehy, P.A.,  Scrimgeour, K.,  Giles, L.R.,  Thomson, P.C. and Wynn, P.C.  2006.  Circulating porcine ghrelin concentrations are responsive to energy metabolites and not insulin. Endocrinolgia Japonica 53: 69

Griffith, G.R., Parnell, P.F. and McKiernan, W. (2006), The economic, Environmental and Social Benefits to NSW from investment in the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies, Economic Research Report No. 30, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Armidale, September.

Hogue, M.A., P.F. Arthur, K. Hiramoto, A.R. Gilmour and T. Oikawa. 2007 Variance components due to direct genetic, maternal genetic and permanent environmental effect for growth and feed efficiency traits in young male Japanese Black cattle. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 124:102-107.

Hoque, M.A., P.F. Arthur, K. Hiramoto and T. Oikawa. 2006 Genetic parameters for carcass traits of field progeny and their relationships with feed efficiency traits of their sire population for Japanese Black (Wagyu) cattle. Livestock Science 100: 251-260.

Hoque, M.A., P.F. Arthur, K. Hiramoto and T. Oikawa. 2006. Genetic relationship between different measures of feed efficiency and its component traits in Japanese Black (Wagyu) bulls. Livestock Science 99: 111-118.

Kilgour, R.J, Melville, G.J and Greenwood, P.L.  (2006) Individual differences in the reaction of beef cattle to situations involving social isolation, close proximity of humans, restraint and novelty. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 99:21-40 

Nattrass, G. S., Quigley, S. P., Gardner, G. E., McLaughlan, C. J. Bawden, C. S., Hegarty, R. S. and  Greenwood, P. L. (2006) Genotypic and nutritional regulation of gene expression in two sheep hindlimb muscles with distinct myofibre and metabolic characteristics. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 57:691-698

Scrimgeour, K., Newman, R.E., Giles, L.R., Gresham, M.J., Thomson, P.C. and Wynn, P.C.  2006.  Ad libitum feeding: Is it metabolically efficient? Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 15: Supplement 3, S133.

Conference proceedings

Arthur, P., Horizonte, B. & Brasil, M.G. (2006).  Genetic Relationships between residual feed intake and other economically important traits in Beef Cattle.  8th World congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 13-18.

Arthur, P.F. and R. M. Herd. 2006. Genetic relationships between residual feed intake and other economically important traits in beef cattle. 8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 13 – 18 August 2006. pp. Communication No. 14-19.

Arthur, P.F., Herd, R.M., Johnston, D.J., Wolcott, M.L. & Barwick, S.A. (2006)  Genetics of growth and feed efficiency.  Australian beef-The Leader, Proceedings of the Beef CRC Conference, Armidale NSW, 7-8 March 2006, 53-64.

Cafe, L.M., O’rourke, B. Mckiernan, W. and Greenwood, P.L. (2006). Carcass and yield characteristics of steers from Angus muscling selection lines with normal and mutant myostatin alleles. Aust Soc Anim Prod 26th Biennial Conf Short Communication 13.

Goopy, J.P., Hegarty, R.S. and Dobos, R.C. (2006) The persistence over time of divergent methane production in lot fed cattle. International Congress Series 1293, 111-114 (July 2006). Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture: An Update. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture,  Zurich, Switzerland, 20 - 24 September 2005

Greenwood, P.L., Cafe, L.M. Hearnshaw, H. and Hennessy, D.W. (2006). Consequences of fetal and pre-weaning growth for the characteristics of longissimus myofibres at 30 months of age in Piedmontese- and Wagyu- sired in heifers sired by Piedmontese and Wagyu bulls. Aust Soc Anim Prod 26th Biennial Conf Short Communication 16.

Greenwood, P.L., Cafe, L.M., O’rourke, B. and Mckiernan, W.  (2006). Myofibre characteristics in m. semitendinosus of steers from Angus muscling selection lines with normal and mutant myostatin alleles. Aust Soc Anim Prod 26th Biennial Conf Short Communication 15. 

Herd, R.M., P.F.Arthur and J.A. Archer. 2006. Repeatability of residual feed intake and interaction with level of nutrition in Angus cows. 26th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production. Short Communication Number 80.

Irwin, J., Wilkins, J.F., McKiernan, W.A. and Barwick, S.A. (2006). Relationships between carcase measures and estimates of meat quality traits in steers with diverse genotypes and having different pre-feedlot growth treatments. Animal Production in Australia 26: Short Communication Number 19.

Kijas, J., J. Meadows, V. Pardeshi, V. Gupta, C. Drogemuller, C. Moran, B. O’Rourke and P. Arthur. 2006. Genetic basis of the Australian Merino. 30th International Conference of Animal Genetics, Porto Seguro, Brazil. 20 – 25 August 2006 (Accepted).

Kijas, J., Meadows, J., Pardeshi, V.,Gupta, V., Drogemuuler, C. Moran, C., O’Rourke, B. and Aruther, P. (2006).  Genetic basis of the Australian Merino.  30th International Conference of Animal Genetics, Porto Seguro, Brail.  20-25 August 2006.

McKiernan, W.A., Wilkins, J.F., Irwin, J. and Barwick, S.A. (2006). Live body composition assessments as predictors of carcase retail beef yield. Animal Production in Australia 26: Short Communication Number 18.

Nolan, J. and Dobos, R.C. (2006) Nitrogen transactions in ruminants In: Quantitative aspects of ruminant digestion and metabolism (2nd edition). Editors: J. Dijkstra, J.M. Forbes and J. France. CABI Publishing.

O’Rourke, B.A., Arthur, P.F., Greenwood, P.L. and Goddard, M.E. (2006). Muscling in beef cattle: a molecular investigation. Proc 2006 Ann Postgraduate Conf, 19-22 September 2006, Coffs Harbour. CRC for Beef Genetic technologies and Sheep Industry CRC.

Reverter, A., Hudson, N.J., Wang, Y., Tan, S.-H., Barris, W., Byrne,  K.A., Mcwilliam, S.M., Bottema, C.D.K., Kister, A, Greenwood, P.L., Harper, G.S., Lehnert, S.A. and Dalrymple, B.P. (2006) A gene co-expression network of bovine skeletal muscle inferred from microarray data. Physiological Genomics 28:76-83.

Final reports

Giles, L.R.  2006.  Validating an improved prediction of belly composition using real-time ultrasound.  Final report on project 2000.02 to Australian Pork Ltd., Canberra, ACT.

O’Rourke, B.A., Dennis, J.A., McKiernan, W.A., Greenwood, P.L., Cafe, L., Perry, D., Arthur, P.F., Parnell, P.F. and Walker, K.H. (2006). Myostatin alleles as production markers. Final Report of Project BSC.033 to Meat & Livestock Australia. NSW Department of Primary Industries, Camden, May 2006.

Reports & industry manuals

Dobos, R.C. (2006) Upgrade BEEF-N-OMICS from DOS to Windows. Report to Research Leader, October 2006

Dobos, R.C., Carberry, P.J. and Davies, L. (2006) Beef-N-Omics: Users manual May 2006