Improvement in genetic evaluation of female fertility in dairy cattle using multiple-trait models including milk production traits

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 871-878

  Sun, C ^a,b   Madsen, P ^a   Lund, M S ^a   Zhang, Y ^b   Nielsen, U S ^c   Su, G ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Dansk Landbrugsradgivning   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Female fertility; Genetic evaluation; Model validation; Multiple trait analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MILK; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PARITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MILK; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PARITY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

BOS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 77649103467     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: 15253163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2009-1912     Document Type: Article

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