Character process model for semen volume in AI rams: Evaluation of correlation structures for long and short-term environmental effects

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-71

  David, Ingrid ^a   Bodin, Loys ^a   Lagriffoul, Gilles ^b   Manfredi, Eduardo ^a   Robert Granié, Christèle ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b ANIO   (France)

Author keywords

Longitudinal data; Semen; Serial correlations; Sheep

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HERITABILITY; MODEL; SHEEP; SPERM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; SHEEP; SPERM; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEMEN; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33846225660     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2006033     Document Type: Article

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