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Heritability of longevity in Large White and Landrace sows using continuous time and grouped data models

BACKGROUND: Using conventional measurements of lifetime, it is not possible to differentiate between productive and non-productive days during a sow's lifetime and this can lead to estimated breeding values favoring less productive animals. By rescaling the time axis from continuous to several...

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Autores principales: Mészáros, Gábor, Pálos, Judit, Ducrocq, Vincent, Sölkner, Johann
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20465803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-42-13