Importance of special combining ability in dairy cattle breeding;Bedeutung der speziellen kombinationseignung in der milchrinderzüchtung

Zuchtungskunde

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-19

  Brade, W ^a   Groeneveld, E ^b  

^a Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

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