Genetic correlations of direct and indirect genetic components of social dominance with fitness and morphology traits in cattle.

Although udder conformation traits are indicators of a ‘female-like’ conformation and would have been expected to trade-off with dominance related traits [ 32 ], in our population, udder morphology does not appear to show a clear trend of change, neither negative nor positive, which could be a consequence of the dual selection for both social dominance and milk production.

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In fact social dominance showed a strong trend of change in its EBV, with the direct component showing a marked increase and, of course, the indirect component showing a mirroring decrease.

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