Blood Groups and Milk and Type Traits in Dairy Cattle: After Forty Years of Research

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1663-1680

  Rocha, J L ^a   Sanders, J O ^a   Cherbonnier, D M ^a   Lawlor, T J ^b   Taylor, J F ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Holstein Association USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood groups; Marker assisted selection; Milk and type traits; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN; LIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; LACTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MILK; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; BREEDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; LACTATION; LIPIDS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0032084977     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(98)75734-0     Document Type: Article

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