Selection for milk somatic cell count in laboratory mice

<p>A bidirectional selection experiment for high and low somatic cell count (SCC) was conducted over 14 generations with two selected lines (high line = HSCC, low line = LSCC) of mice. Seven secondary traits (milk yield, total white blood cell count, percentage of phagocytic cells in blood, en...

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Main Author: Larson, Ann Michelle
Other Authors: Dairy Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44079
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08012012-040326/