Effect of herd prevalence on heritability estimates of antibody response to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 992-997

  Van Hulzen, K J E ^a   Nielen, M ^a   Koets, A P ^a   de Jong, G ^b   van Arendonk, J A M ^c   Heuven, H C M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CRV Animal Evaluation Unit   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; ELISA; Heritability; Johne's disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; FRIESIA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM;

EID: 78751690724     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2010-3472     Document Type: Article

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