Genotype by environment interaction for somatic cell score across bulk milk somatic cell count and days in milk

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4846-4857

  Calus, M P L ^a   Janss, L L G ^a,b   Veerkamp, R F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Genotype x environment interaction; Reaction norm model; Somatic cell count; Test day model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846273835     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72533-4     Document Type: Article

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