Significant differences in fertility between dairy cows selected for one QTL located on bovine chromosome 3 are not attributable to energy balance, although eating behaviour is affected

Animal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 610-617

  Coyral Castel, S ^a,b,c,d   Faverdin, P ^e,f   Rame C ^a,b,c   Freret S ^a,b,c   Guillaume, D ^a,b,c   Fritz, S ^g   Dupont, J ^a,b,c  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c IFCE   (France)

^d Institut de l'Elevage   (France)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

^f AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^g UNCEIA   (France)

Author keywords

dairy cow; eating rate; metabolite; quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; LACTATION; MILK; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HAPLOTYPES; LACTATION; MILK; PARITY; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84876933348     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731112002133     Document Type: Article

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