Technical note: Adaptation of an animal-model method for approximation of reliabilities to a sire-maternal grandsire model

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4058-4061

  Wiggans, G R ^a   Tsuruta, S ^b   Misztal, I ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Reliability; Sire maternal grandsire model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 54049109273     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0955     Document Type: Article

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