Short communication: Correlations of marker-assisted breeding values with progeny-test breeding values for eight hundred ninety-nine French Holstein bulls

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2520-2522

  Guillaume, F ^a,b   Fritz, S ^c   Boichard, D ^a   Druet, T ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Institut de l'Elevage   (France)

^c Union Nationale des Cooperatives Agricoles d'Elevage et d'Insemination Animale (UNCEIA)   (France)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Marker assisted selection

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 44949122484     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0829     Document Type: Article

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