Possibilities for genetic improvement of disease resistance, functional traits and animal welfare

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages 77-89

  Christensen, Lars Gjøl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Breeding goals; Breeding schemes; Calving performance; Dairy cattle; Embryo transfer; Genetic progress; Mastitis multitrait selection; Nordic profile; Optimization; Ovum pick up

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001931175     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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