Estimates of repeatability and heritability of productive and reproductive traits in a herd of Jersey cattle
Estimates of the repeatability and heritability of 19 measures of performance in Jersey cows were obtained using an animal model with a relationship matrix and a derivative-free restricted maximum likelihood algorithm. The data consisted of 935 records for 374 cows by 69 sires over the period 1969-1...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2000-01-01
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| Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572000000100021 |