Genetic variability of residual variance of production traits in Nellore beef cattle

Livestock Science

Volumn 142, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 164-169

  Neves, H H R ^a   Carvalheiro, R ^b   Roso, V M ^b   Queiroz, S A ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b GenSys Consultores Associados S/S Ltda   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Heteroscedastic model; Selection; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 80655127754     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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