Genotype by environment interaction for production traits while accounting for heteroscedasticity

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3889-3899

  Fahey, A G ^a   Schutz, M M ^a   Lofgren, D L ^a   Schinckel, A P ^a   Stewart, T S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritability; Heteroscedasticity; Variance quartile

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748946312     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2006-699     Document Type: Article

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