Genetic and environmental variance components for milk yield across regions, time periods and herd levels for holstein cattle in Mexico

Revista Cientifica de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias de la Universidad del Zulia

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 404-411

  Posadas, Mauricio Valencia ^a   López, Felipe De Jesús Ruíz ^b   Montaldo, Hugo H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

^b INIFAP SAGARPA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Genetic variance; Heritability; Heterogeneous variance; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERD; HERITABILITY; LACTATION; MEXICO; MILK YIELD; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 9344220499     PISSN: 07982259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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