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Estimated breeding values and association mapping for persistency and total milk yield using natural cubic smoothing splines.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 5 Nov 2009
Verbyla Klara L, Verbyla Arunas P
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BACKGROUND: For dairy producers, a reliable description of lactation curves is a valuable tool for management and selection. From a breeding and production viewpoint, milk yield persistency and total milk yield are important traits. Understanding the genetic drivers for the phenotypic variation of both these traits could provide a means for improving these traits in commercial production. METHODS: It has been...
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