Genetic components of heat stress for dairy cattle with multiple lactations

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5702-5711

  Aguilar, I ^a,b   Misztal, I ^a   Tsuruta, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN AGROPECUARIA INIA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Heat stress; Random regression model; Variance component

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 70350314137     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1928     Document Type: Article

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