Selection indices for dairy cattle including fitness traits

Archiv fur Tierzucht

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-15

  Lindhé, Bengt ^a  

^a NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle breeding; Fitness traits; Selection indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033481237     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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