Confirmation and refinement of a QTL on BTA5 affecting milk production traits in the Fleckvieh dual purpose cattle breed

Animal Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Awad, A ^a   Russ, I ^b   Emmerling, R ^c   Forster M ^a,b   Medugorac, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Tierzuchtforschung EV München ^*  (Germany)

^c Institute of Animal Breeding   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cattle chromosome 5; Linkage disequilibrium; Milk production traits; QTL mapping

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; LACTATION; MALE; MILK; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; LACTATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 73849095464     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2009.01957.x     Document Type: Article

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