Heritability and genetic correlations of test day milk yield and composition, individual laboratory cheese yield, and somatic cell count for dairy ewes

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2692-2698

  Othmane, M H ^a,b   De La Fuente, L F ^a   Carriedo, J A ^a   San Primitivo, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Dairy ewe; Genetic parameter; Test day milk component

Indexed keywords

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

CASEIN; LIPID; MILK PROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHEESE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; MILK; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CASEINS; CELL COUNT; CHEESE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; LIPIDS; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; SHEEP;

EID: 0036779923     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74355-5     Document Type: Article

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