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Estimated breeding values and association mapping for persistency and total milk yield using natural cubic smoothing splines

BACKGROUND: For dairy producers, a reliable description of lactation curves is a valuable tool for management and selection. From a breeding and production viewpoint, milk yield persistency and total milk yield are important traits. Understanding the genetic drivers for the phenotypic variation of b...

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Autores principales: Verbyla, Klara L, Verbyla, Arunas P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19891765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-41-48