Maternal effects on daily weight gain and ultrasonically recorded backfat in Swedish Landrace, Swedish Yorkshire, and Swedish Hampshire purebred pigs

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 67-74

  Solanes, F Xavier ^a   Kihlberg, Maria ^b   Andersson, Kjell ^a   Lundeheim, Nils ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Quality Genetics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Correlations; Growth rate; Heritability; Litter effects; Pigs

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644257123     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700410032004     Document Type: Article

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