APPENDIX I

Estimated sire standard deviation (diagonal) and genetic correlations (above diagonal) considered in the Interbull test evaluation for direct longevity of November 2005; sire standard deviation estimates are determined on a de-standardized transmitting ability scale.

AUS=Australia, BEL=Belgium, CAN=Canada, CHE=Switzerland, DEU=Germany, DNK=Denmark, DNR=Danish Red & White (Holstein evaluation), ESP=Spain, FIN=Finland, FRA=France, GBR=United Kingdom, IRL=Ireland, ISR=Israel, ITA=Italy, NZL = New Zealand, SWE=Sweden, NLD = Netherlands, USA=United States


Ayrshire - Direct Longevity
	AUS	CAN	DEU	DNK	FIN	NZL	SWE	USA
AUS	2.496	.40	.81	.65	.53	.66	.73	.48
CAN		0.079	.63	.67	.74	.30	.78	.91
DEU			0.171	.91	.60	.31	.86	.73
DNK				0.068	.77	.30	.79	.76
FIN					0.150	.61	.57	.69
NZL						1.364	.36	.30
SWE							0.047	.82
USA								1.685

Brown Swiss - Direct Longevity
	CAN	CHE	DEA	NLD	NZL	USA
CAN	0.084	.92	.83	.89	.38	.87
CHE		0.077	.77	.78	.42	.78
DEA			0.165	.54	.30	.58
NLD				0.083	.57	.97
NZL					1.990	.66
USA						1.810

Guernsey - Direct Longevity
	AUS	CAN	NZL	USA
AUS	2.810	.80	.86	.50
CAN		0.088	.69	.80
NZL			1.856	.32
USA				2.105

Holstein - Direct Longevity
	AUS	BEL	CAN	CHE	DEU	DNK	DNR	ESP	FIN	FRA	GBR	IRL	ISR	ITA	NLD	NZL	SWE	USA
AUS	1.894	.73	.65	.46	.55	.65	.52	.33	.56	.68	.64	.55	.43	.37	.63	.71	.64	.67
BEL		0.150	.82	.67	.82	.74	.74	.51	.46	.65	.86	.79	.33	.56	.68	.73	.72	.82
CAN			0.080	.67	.85	.76	.74	.72	.57	.71	.83	.74	.49	.76	.77	.57	.74	.89
CHE				0.084	.82	.78	.88	.75	.66	.62	.79	.56	.31	.69	.75	.50	.60	.72
DEU					0.200	.82	.83	.77	.66	.65	.86	.79	.35	.78	.80	.56	.72	.85
DNK						0.076	.79	.69	.85	.76	.75	.62	.42	.70	.84	.54	.73	.83
DNR							0.072	.58	.63	.67	.80	.68	.31	.60	.81	.46	.63	.71
ESP								0.177	.66	.55	.65	.51	.32	.82	.64	.49	.45	.72
FIN									0.159	.76	.52	.55	.45	.57	.74	.48	.62	.64
FRA										0.500	.61	.53	.54	.65	.80	.41	.65	.67
GBR											0.280	.76	.39	.70	.66	.65	.74	.83
IRL												1.916	.32	.59	.57	.70	.70	.71
ISR													10.356	.40	.38	.33	.33	.39
ITA														0.168	.70	.35	.53	.73
NLD															0.087	.43	.69	.80
NZL																1.224	.59	.66
SWE																	0.052	.81
USA																		1.764

Jersey - Direct Longevity
	AUS	CAN	DNK	NLD	NZL	USA
AUS	2.292	.42	.30	.30	.64	.71
CAN		7.649	.30	.42	.53	.81
DNK			0.067	.71	.50	.35
NLD				0.092	.39	.62
NZL					1.176	.69
USA						1.770

Simmental - Direct Longevity
	FRM	NLD
FRM	0.487	.77
NLD		0.080