Morphological assessment of beef cattle according to carcass value

Livestock Science

Volumn 107, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 265-273

  Alonso, Jaime ^a   Bahamonde, Antonio ^a   Villa, Alfonso ^b   Castañón, Ángel Rodríguez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Association of Breeders of Asturiana de los Valles (ASEAVA)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial Intelligence; Beef cattle; Carcass; Morphological assessment; Support Vector Machines (SVM)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 33847221465     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2006.09.027     Document Type: Article

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