Factors affecting actual weaning weight, preweaning average daily gain and relative growth rate in Asturiana de los Valles beef cattle breed

Archives Animal Breeding

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 235-243

  Goyache, F ^a   Fernandez I ^a   Royo, L J ^a   Alvarez I ^a   Gutierrez J P ^b  

^a Área de Genética y Reproducción Animal   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

environmental factors; heritability; maternal effects

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0038470800     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: 23639822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/aab-46-235-2003     Document Type: Article

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