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Inbreeding depression on beef cattle traits: Estimates, linearity of effects and heterogeneity among sire-families

Records from up to 19054 registered cows and 10297 calves in 155 herds of the Alentejana cattle breed were used to study the effects of individual (F(i)) and maternal (F(m)) inbreeding on reproductive, growth and carcass traits, as well as assessing the importance of non-linear associations between...

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Autores principales: Carolino, Nuno, Gama, Luis T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18694547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-40-5-511