Evaluating alternate models to estimate genetic parameters of calving traits in United Kingdom Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Eaglen, Sophie A E ^a,b   Coffey, Mike P ^a   Woolliams, John A ^b   Wall, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRY FARMING; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; BOS; FRIESIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84864208525     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-44-23     Document Type: Article

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