Artificial infestation of Boophilus microplus in beef cattle heifers of four genetic groups

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1150-1155

  da Silva, Ana Mary ^a,c   de Alencar, Maurício Mello ^b   de Almeida Regitano, Luciana Correia ^b   de Sena Oliveira, Márcia Cristina ^b   Barioni Jr , Waldomiro ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Crossbred; Tick resistance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BREED DIFFERENCE; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; HEIFER; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS; IXODIDA; UROCHLOA BRIZANTHA;

EID: 37649000464     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572007000600020     Document Type: Article

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