Lactation and sample test-day multi-trait animal model for genetic evaluation of somatic cell scores in Hungarian Holstein-Friesian crossbreeds

Archives Animal Breeding

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 263-275

  Amin, A A ^a  

^a University of Suez Canal   (Egypt)

Author keywords

correlations; HF crossbreeds; Hungarian Holstein Friesian; milk; somatic cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063856762     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: 23639822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/aab-44-263-2001     Document Type: Article

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