Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) in sheep. II. Meta-assembly and identification of novel QTL for milk production traits in sheep

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Raadsma, Herman ^a   Jonas, Elisabeth ^a   McGill, David ^a   Hobbs, Matthew ^a   Lam, Mary ^a   Thomson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; FAT; GENOME; LACTATION; META-ANALYSIS; MILK PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTEIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

BOS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; MALE; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHEEP; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SHEEP;

EID: 77949786686     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-41-45     Document Type: Article

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