Responses to selection against clinical mastitis in the Norwegian cattle population

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 155-160

  Heringstad, Bjørg ^a   Klemetsdal, Gunnar ^a   Ruane, John ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clinical mastitis; Dairy cattle; Genetic trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035349648     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/090647001750193503     Document Type: Article

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