Genetic and environmental sources of variation of milk yield of Skopelos dairy goats

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-5

  Kominakis, A ^a   Rogdakis, E ^a   Vasiloudis, Ch ^b   Liaskos, O ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Fac Anim Sci Agric Univ A   (Greece)

Author keywords

Correlation; Goat; Heritability; Milk yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034055537     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4488(99)00105-4     Document Type: Article

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