APPENDIX I

Estimated sire standard deviation (diagonal) and genetic correlations (above diagonal) considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for direct longevity of January 2009; 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, HUN= Hungary, IRL=Ireland, ISR=Israel, ITA=Italy, NZL=New Zealand, SWE=Sweden, NLD=Netherlands, USA=United States
 

Red Dairy Cattle - Direct Longevity
	aus	can	deu	dnk	fin	nzl	swe	usa	gbr
aus	2.484	.51	.83	.64	.46	.54	.82	.49	.30
can		0.036	.61	.69	.75	.30	.75	.92	.76
deu			0.176	.89	.67	.36	.85	.67	.39
dnk				0.068	.81	.37	.75	.71	.54
fin					0.152	.42	.58	.76	.77
nzl						1.182	.44	.30	.30
swe							0.047	.81	.32
usa								2.932	.61
gbr									0.323
BrownSwiss - Direct Longevity
	can	che	deu	nld	nzl	usa	ita	fra
can	0.040	.83	.87	.65	.32	.91	.87	.82
che		0.096	.79	.60	.36	.74	.61	.84
deu			0.169	.38	.29	.68	.77	.81
nld				0.178	.51	.85	.64	.69
nzl					1.566	.50	.38	.32
usa						3.104	.82	.73
ita							0.095	.77
fra								0.457
Guernsey - Direct Longevity
	aus	can	nzl	usa	gbr
aus	2.827	.66	.75	.62	.63
can		0.040	.55	.88	.92
nzl			1.588	.32	.56
usa				3.078	.86
gbr					0.356
Holstein - Direct longevity
	aus	bel	can	che	deu	dnk	dnr	esp	fin	fra	gbr	irl	isr	ita	nld	nzl	swe	usa	hun	chr
aus	1.895	.71	.63	.75	.59	.68	.60	.37	.54	.69	.71	.60	.59	.39	.73	.68	.63	.67	.30	.68
bel		0.155	.74	.75	.77	.72	.55	.49	.54	.66	.85	.79	.59	.46	.67	.60	.74	.74	.39	.70
can			0.038	.86	.89	.81	.77	.84	.65	.70	.87	.88	.60	.82	.60	.54	.78	.92	.72	.78
che				0.084	.88	.82	.79	.72	.77	.76	.84	.81	.65	.62	.78	.48	.69	.83	.45	.91
deu					0.199	.81	.83	.79	.76	.66	.86	.90	.60	.73	.67	.48	.77	.87	.57	.77
dnk						0.075	.79	.75	.84	.77	.82	.70	.65	.69	.71	.48	.75	.86	.55	.79
dnr							0.072	.72	.76	.67	.76	.74	.55	.67	.70	.48	.65	.81	.58	.74
esp								0.182	.72	.58	.72	.74	.51	.81	.51	.46	.56	.83	.72	.62
fin									0.162	.72	.70	.69	.65	.52	.58	.46	.64	.70	.37	.65
fra										0.497	.66	.61	.70	.64	.63	.40	.63	.71	.49	.80
gbr											0.288	.88	.61	.69	.65	.61	.76	.86	.55	.78
irl												2.210	.52	.65	.52	.66	.81	.81	.52	.66
isr													10.173	.49	.67	.33	.57	.63	.36	.57
ita														0.178	.40	.31	.55	.74	.80	.64
nld															0.154	.40	.59	.75	.42	.68
nzl																1.084	.51	.55	.31	.36
swe																	0.053	.76	.44	.53
usa																		2.516	.74	.73
hun																			0.070	.42
chr																				0.093
Jersey - Direct Longevity
	aus	can	dnk	nld	nzl	usa	gbr
aus	2.242	.32	.29	.30	.55	.65	.30
can		0.031	.51	.58	.32	.74	.76
dnk			0.069	.68	.36	.50	.92
nld				0.162	.50	.70	.64
nzl					0.986	.59	.39
usa						2.731	.67
gbr							0.277
Simmental - Direct Longevity
	frm	nld
frm	0.477	.52
nld		0.166