Relationship between feed efficiency indexes and performance, body measurements, digestibility, energy partitioning, and nitrogen partitioning in pre-weaning dairy heifers

• Camila Flávia de Assis Lage,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Veterinary, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, Belo Horizonte—MG, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-5824

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• Sandra Gesteira Coelho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Veterinary, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, Belo Horizonte—MG, Brazil

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• Hilton do Carmo Diniz Neto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Veterinary, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, Belo Horizonte—MG, Brazil

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• Victor Marco Rocha Malacco,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Veterinary, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, Belo Horizonte—MG, Brazil

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• João Paulo Pacheco Rodrigues,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Studies of the Humid Tropic, Federal University of South and Southeast of Pará, Xinguara, Pará, Brazil

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• João Paulo Sacramento,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Federal University of São João Del Rey, Praça Frei Orlando, Centro, São João Del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Fernanda Samarini Machado,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, EMBRAPA), Embrapa Dairy Cattle, Av. Eugênio do Nascimento, Juiz de Fora—MG, Brazil

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• Luiz Gustavo Ribeiro Pereira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, EMBRAPA), Embrapa Dairy Cattle, Av. Eugênio do Nascimento, Juiz de Fora—MG, Brazil

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• Thierry Ribeiro Tomich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, EMBRAPA), Embrapa Dairy Cattle, Av. Eugênio do Nascimento, Juiz de Fora—MG, Brazil

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• Mariana Magalhães Campos

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mariana.campos@embrapa.br

  Affiliation Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, EMBRAPA), Embrapa Dairy Cattle, Av. Eugênio do Nascimento, Juiz de Fora—MG, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5332-6010

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