Genetics of steer daily and residual feed intake in two tropical beef genotypes, and relationships among intake, body composition, growth and other post-weaning measures

Animal Production Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 351-366

  Barwick, S A ^a,b   Wolcott, M L ^a,b   Johnston, D J ^a,b   Burrow, H M ^a,c   Sullivan, M T ^a,d  

^a Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Correlations; Genotype environment; Heritability; IGF I; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEANING;

BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; SANGA;

EID: 66149170335     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EA08249     Document Type: Article

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