Relationships among udder characteristics, milk yield and, non-yield traits in Frizarta dairy sheep

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 82-88

  Kominakis, A P ^a   Papavasiliou, D ^b   Rogdakis, E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

Author keywords

Body structure; Milk production; Multiple stepwise regression; Principal components analysis; Udder morphology

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67651152557     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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