A genome scan for quantitative trait locus by environment interactions for production traits

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3482-3489

  Lillehammer, M ^a   Arnyasi M ^b,c   Lien, S ^a   Olsen, H G ^a,c   Sehested, E ^d   Odegard J ^a   Meuwissen, T H E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c BoviBank Ltd   (Norway)

^d GENO Breeding and AI Association   (Norway)

Author keywords

Autosome; Genotype by environment interaction; Quantitative trait loci; Random regression

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 35748930853     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2006-834     Document Type: Article

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