Article
Short communication: estimates of genetic variation of milk fatty acids in US Holstein cows.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2008
Bobe G, Minick Bormann J A, Lindberg G L, Freeman A E, Beitz D C
Abstract excerpt
Interest in changing the milk fatty acid profile is growing. However, little is known about the genetic variability of milk fatty acids in the US Holstein population. Therefore, genetic parameters for milk fatty acids were estimated using a single-trait, mixed, linear animal model on 592 individual milk samples from 233 daughters of 53 sires in a cow herd genetically representative of the US Holstein population....
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Diet
- Fatty Acids
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Lactation
- Milk
- Parity
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable
- Selection, Genetic