Genetic Parameter Estimates of Carcass Traits under National Scale Breeding Scheme for Beef Cattle

Carcass and price traits of 72,969 Hanwoo cows, bulls and steers aged 16 to 80 months at slaughter collected from 2002 to 2013 at 75 beef packing plants in Korea were analyzed to determine heritability, correlation and breeding value using the Multi-Trait restricted maximum likelihood (REML) animal...

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Main Authors: ChangHee Do, ByungHo Park, SiDong Kim, TaeJung Choi, BohSuk Yang, SuBong Park, HyungJun Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 2016-08-01
Series:Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.ajas.info/upload/pdf/ajas-29-8-1083.pdf