Controlling inbreeding by constraining the average relationship between parents of young bulls entering al progeny test programs

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2376-2383

  Weigel, K A ^a   Lin, S W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Inbreeding; Progeny testing

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036731370     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(02)74318-x     Document Type: Article

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