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Opportunities for collaborative phenotyping for disease resistance traits in a large beef cattle resource population.
Developments in biologicals - 1 Jan 2008
Thallman R M, Kuehn L A, Allan M F, Bennett G L, Koohmaraie M
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The Germplasm Evaluation (GPE) Project at the US Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) is planned to produce about 3,000 calves per year in support of the following objectives: identification and validation of genetic polymorphisms related to economically relevant traits (ERT), estimation of breed and heterosis effects among 16 breeds for ERT, and estimation of genetic correlations among ERT and physiological...
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