Toward a resilience selection index with indicator traits in German Holstein dairy cattle.

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Resilience expresses the ability of an individual to cope with short-term disturbances and to recover quickly by returning to the original level of performance. It can be measured by variance-based parameters and by the autocorrelation of daily milk yields in dairy cows. The design of resilience indicator traits and their heritabilities and genetic correlations have been studied in detail in recent years. There...

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