Modeling relationships between calving traits: A comparison between standard and recursive mixed models

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  De Maturana, Evangelina Lápez ^a,b   De Los Campos, Gustavo ^a   Wu, Xiao Lin ^a   Gianola, Daniel ^a,c   Weigel, Kent A ^a   Rosa, Guilherme Jm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; LINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77949531509     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-42-1     Document Type: Article

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