Relative economic weights of maternal versus direct traits in breeding schemes

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 117-127

  Wolfova M ^a   Nitter, G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breeding systems; Crossbreeding; Discounted expressions; Economic weights; Gene flow; Purebreeding

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 2642580121     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livprodsci.2003.09.024     Document Type: Article

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