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Opportunities for genomic prediction for fertility using endocrine and classical fertility traits in dairy cattle.
Journal of animal science - 1 Sept 2016
Tenghe A M M, Berglund B, Wall E, Veerkamp R F, de Koning D J
Abstract excerpt
Endocrine fertility traits, defined from progesterone concentration levels in milk, have been suggested as alternative indicators for fertility in dairy cows because they are less biased by farm management decisions and more directly reflect a cow's reproductive physiology than classical traits derived from insemination and calving data. To determine the potential use of endocrine fertility traits in genomic...
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