Genetic evaluation for persistency of lactation in Holstein cows using a random regression model
A model for analyzing test day records including both fixed and random coefficients was applied to the genetic evaluation of first lactation data for Holstein cows. Data comprising 87045 test-day milk yield records from calving between 1997 and 2001 from Holstein herds in 10 regions of the Brazilian...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2007-03-01
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Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572007000300009 |