Economic accounting of numbers of expressions and delays in sheep genetic improvement

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-336

  Amer, P R ^a  

^a INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benefit cost; Discounting; Gene flow; Genetic; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032699902     PISSN: 00288233     EISSN: 11758775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288233.1999.9513382     Document Type: Article

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