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Table 1 Composition of PD16, the Israeli breeding index

From: Broad phenotypic impact of the effects of transgenerational heat stress in dairy cattle: a study of four consecutive generations

Trait Index coefficient Genetic SD Fraction of the indexa
Milk (kg) 0 910 0.000
Fat (kg) 8.48 32.1 0.212
Protein (kg) 21.2 22.6 0.373
Somatic cell score − 300 0.47 0.110
Fertility (%) 26 7.15 0.145
Persistency (%) 10 5.44 0.042
Herd-life (days) 0.6 205 0.096
Maternal calving difficulty (%) − 3 5.46 0.013
Maternal stillbirth (%) − 6 2.21 0.010
  1. SD standard deviation
  2. aComputed as the product of the absolute value of index coefficient and the genetic SD for each trait, divided the sum of the index contributions for all traits