Heterogeneity of (Co)Variance among Herds for Backfat Measures of Swine

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2568-2574

  See, M T ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best Linear Unbiased Prediction; Genetic Parameters; Pigs

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SWINE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032175132     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1998.76102568x     Document Type: Article

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