Evaluation of expected response to selection for orthopedic health and performance traits in Hanoverian Warmblood horses

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1371-1379

  Stock, Kathrin F ^a   Distl, Ottmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE TISSUE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; JUMPING; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; PATERNALISM; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; SESAMOID BONE; TARSAL JOINT; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BONE DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HORSE DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMALS; BONE DISEASES; BREEDING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JOINT DISEASES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 26944477063     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2005.66.1371     Document Type: Article

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