Genetic variants affecting meat and milk production traits appear to have effects on reproduction traits in cattle

Animal Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 442-446

  Collis, E ^a,b   Fortes, M R S ^a,b,c   Zhang, Y ^a,d   Tier, B ^a,d   Schutt, K ^a   Barendse, W ^a,b   Hawken, R ^a,b,e  

^a Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^e Cobb Vantress Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Bos indicus; CAPN1; DGAT1; Genetic markers; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CALPAIN; CAPN1 PROTEIN, BOS TAURUS; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MEAT; METABOLISM; MILK; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CALPAIN; CATTLE; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MEAT; MILK; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCTION; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

BOS; BOS INDICUS;

EID: 84863726889     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02272.x     Document Type: Article

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