Estimation of Genetic (Co)variance Components for International Evaluation of Dairy Bulls

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica A: Animal Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 129-136

  Sigurdsson, Agust ^a,b   Banos, Georgios ^a   Philipsson, Jan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b BI   (Iceland)

Author keywords

EM REML; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040175893     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064709609415863     Document Type: Article

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