Detection of genes influencing economic traits in three French dairy cattle breeds

A project of QTL detection was carried out in the French Holstein, Normande, and Montbéliarde dairy cattle breeds. This granddaughter design included 1 548 artificial insemination bulls distributed in 14 sire families and evaluated after a progeny-test for 24 traits (production, milk composition, pe...

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Main Authors: Boichard, Didier, Grohs, Cécile, Bourgeois, Florence, Cerqueira, Frédérique, Faugeras, Rémi, Neau, André, Rupp, Rachel, Amigues, Yves, Boscher, Marie Yvonne, Levéziel, Hubert
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2003
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732691/