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Invited review: overview of new traits and phenotyping strategies in dairy cattle with a focus on functional traits

For several decades, breeding goals in dairy cattle focussed on increased milk production. However, many functional traits have negative genetic correlations with milk yield, and reductions in genetic merit for health and fitness have been observed. Herd management has been challenged to compensate...

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Autores principales: Egger-Danner, C., Cole, J. B., Pryce, J. E., Gengler, N., Heringstad, B., Bradley, A., Stock, K. F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25387784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1751731114002614