Genetic analysis of liability to clinical mastitis, with somatic cell score and production traits using bivariate threshold-linear and linear-linear models

Livestock Science

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-59

  Negussie, Enyew ^a   Strandén, Ismo ^a   Mäntysaari, Esa A ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clinical mastitis; Dairy cattle; Genetic correlation; Threshold liability model

Indexed keywords

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EID: 48049110505     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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