Estimates of genetic parameters for daily somatic cell count of australian dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1255-1264

  Haile Mariam, M ^a   Goddard, M E ^a,b   Bowman, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VIC INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Daily somatic cell count; Genetic parameters; Random regression

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; MILK; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; LACTATION; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; PARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035344739     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(01)74587-0     Document Type: Article

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