Indigenous Thai beef cattle breeding scheme incorporating indirect measures of adaptation: Sensitivity to changes in heritabilities of and genetic correlations between adaptation traits

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1039-1046

  Kahi, A K ^a,b   Graser, H U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Beef Cattle; Breeding Objectives; Breeding Program Design; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 3242673307     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2004.1039     Document Type: Article

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