Analysis of milk production traits in early lactation using a reaction norm model with unknown covariates

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5759-5766

  Shariati, M M ^a,b,c   Su, G ^a   Madsen, P ^a   Sorensen, D ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Herd year environment; Reaction norm; Residual variance heterogeneity; Unknown covariate

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149055252     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0048     Document Type: Article

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