“…However, the expression of this quantitative phenotypic characteristic is not only due to its genes, but also influenced by month of birth, the cow's gestational age, the calf's weaning age, the matrix's maturity weight, the mother's racial composition, the calf's sex, and correlations between these variables (Castro-Pereira, Alencar, & Barbosa, 2007;Bocchi, Oliveira, Ferraz, & Eler, 2008;Queiroz, Costa, Oliveira, & Fries, 2009;Barichello, Alencar, Torres Jr., & Silva, 2011;Fialho et al, 2015).…”