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Quantitative trait loci affecting milk production traits on bovine chromosome 6 in zebuine Gyr breed.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Feb 2011
Silva A A, Azevedo A L S, Verneque R S, Gasparini K, Peixoto M G C D, da Silva M V G B, Lopes P S, Guimarães S E F, Machado M A
Abstract excerpt
Fourteen Brazilian dairy Gyr sire families with 657 daughters were analyzed for quantitative trait loci (QTL) on chromosome 6 by using a daughter design for 5 economic traits: milk, fat, and protein production, fat and protein percentage. The cows and sires were genotyped for 27 microsatellites with average spacing between markers of 4.9 cM. In the analyses across 14 families, for the largest significant...
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