Genome wide scan for somatic cell counts in holstein bulls

BMC Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Minozzi, Giulietta ^a   Nicolazzi, Ezequiel L ^b   Strozzi, Francesco ^a   Stella, Alessandra ^a,c   Negrini, Riccardo ^b   Ajmone Marsan, Paolo ^b   Williams, John L ^a  

^a PARCO TECNOLOGICO PADANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; BULL (BOVINE); CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 6; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC CELL COUNT;

EID: 84994665939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17536561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-5-S4-S17     Document Type: Article

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