Heterogeneity of (Co)variance components for Jersey type traits

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1772.e1-1772.e17

  Gengler, N ^a,b   Dusseldorf, T ^b   Wiggans, G R ^c   Wright, J R ^c   Druet, T ^a,b  

^a FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic evaluation; Heterogeneous variance; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044527697     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(01)74613-9     Document Type: Article

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