Association of bovine fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) gene with milk fat and productive life: An example of the ability of the candidate pathway strategy to identify quantitative trait genes

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2475-2480

  Wang, X ^a,b   Maltecca, C ^a   Tal Stein, R ^c   Lipkin, E ^c   Khatib, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Candidate pathway; FGF2 gene; Milk composition; Productive life

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 44949240403     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0877     Document Type: Article

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