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Beef cattle body temperature during climatic stress: a genome-wide association study.
International journal of biometeorology - 1 Sept 2014
Howard Jeremy T, Kachman Stephen D, Snelling Warren M, Pollak E John, Ciobanu Daniel C, Kuehn Larry A, Spangler Matthew L
Abstract excerpt
Cattle are reared in diverse environments and collecting phenotypic body temperature (BT) measurements to characterize BT variation across diverse environments is difficult and expensive. To better understand the genetic basis of BT regulation, a genome-wide association study was conducted utilizing crossbred steers and heifers totaling 239 animals of unknown pedigree and breed fraction. During predicted extreme...
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