Genotype x environment interaction for milk production of daughters of Australian dairy sires from test-day records

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3736-3744

  Hayes, B J ^a,c   Carrick, M ^a   Bowman, P ^a   Goddard, M E ^a,b  

^a VIC INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NOFIMA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Genotype x environment interaction; Herd test day; Random regression

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

FAT; MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMIDITY; LACTATION; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECRETION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENT; FATS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMIDITY; LACTATION; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1542648960     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(03)73980-0     Document Type: Article

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