Genetic Evaluation by BLUP in Two-Breed Terminal Crossbreeding Systems under Dominance

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2877-2884

  Lo, L L ^a   Fernando, R L ^a   Grossman, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Best Linear Unbiased Prediction; Crossbreeding; Dominance; Genetics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; DOMINANT GENE; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; GENOTYPE; MALE; PEDIGREE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0031266283     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1997.75112877x     Document Type: Article

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