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On the role of mid-infrared predicted phenotypes in fertility and health dairy breeding programs.
Journal of dairy science - 1 May 2016
Bastin C, Théron L, Lainé A, Gengler N
Abstract excerpt
Fertility and health traits are of prime importance in dairy breeding programs. However, these traits are generally complex, difficult to record, and lowly heritable (<0.10), thereby hampering genetic improvement in disease resistance and fertility. Hence, indicators are useful in the prediction of genetic merit for fertility and health traits as long as they are easier to measure than direct fitness traits,...
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