Genetic parameter estimation for milk yield over multiple parities and various lengths of lactation in danish jerseys by random regression models

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1596-1606

  Guo, Z ^a,b   Lund, M S ^a   Madsen, P ^a   Korsgaard, I ^a   Jensen, J ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Length of lactation; Multiple parity; Random regression

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; MILK; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SECRETION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; LACTATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036616684     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74230-6     Document Type: Article

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