Milk and fat production of crossbred Holstein-Gir cows (Bos taurus taurus-Bos taurus indicus) in the Agreste region of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 468-474

  Barbosa, Severino Benone Paes ^a,d   Ramalho, Ricardo P ^a   Monardes, Humberto G ^b   Dias, Flávio M ^c   dos Santos, Djalma C ^c   Batista, Ângela M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Empresa Pernambucana de Pesquisa Agropecuaria   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Genetic groups; Genetics groups; Recombination; Repeated measures; Test day

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COW; CROSS BREEDING; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 46649096454     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572008000300012     Document Type: Article

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