Economic indexes including tick resistance for Hereford and Braford breeds raised in Southern Brazil.

and BR contributed only 10%. The minor progress using the proposed index would be expected for TICK and BR, and new strategies should be studied for their genetic improvement, particularly BR which has large relative economic importance compared to the other traits.

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