Genetic parameters and genome-wide associations of twinning rate in a local breed, the Maremmana cattle

This study seeks to verify the feasibility of increasing twinning in a herd of the Italian autochtonous Maremmana breed. The data set included 1260 individuals born from 1963 to 2014, 527 males and 733 females, 402 of them calving at least once from 1983 through 2015. Breeding values for twinning we...

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Main Authors: B. Moioli, R. Steri, C. Marchitelli, G. Catillo, L. Buttazzoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731117000283