Within-herd heritability estimated with daughter-parent regression for yield and somatic cell score

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 482-492

  Dechow, C D ^a   Normanf, H D ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Daughter dam regression; Daughter sire regression; Heritability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35748985587     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(07)72650-4     Document Type: Article

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