Authors : Ebru Emsen and Michael E. Davis
Abstract: Nine body measurements and seven testicular measurements were obtained from 41 Awassi fat tailed ram lambs at seven months of age. Canonical correlation analyses were run to identify the associations between testicular and body measurements as two sets of variables. Nine body and seven testicular measurements were used as predictor variables and criterion variables, respectively. For the first four canonical variate pairs, the canonical coefficients ranged from 0.95 to 0.74, and all significant at the 1 % level. According to analyses, heart girth circumference (HG), width at pinbones (WP) and width at hip joint (WHJ) can be regarded as the main factors in the generation of body dimensions. On the other hand, width of right testis (WRT) and width at distance between two testes (DPT) did not have pronounced effects on the emerged criterion variables. High and statistically significant canonical correlations clearly were found from the general framework of relationship between body and testicular measurements from Awassi ram lambs in seven months of age.
Ebru Emsen and Michael E. Davis , 2004. Canonical Correlation Analyses of Testicular and Body Measurements of Awassi Ram Lambs . Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 3: 842-845.