Breeding for robustness in cattle

Breeding for robustness in cattle

by Klopcic, Marija

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Breeding for robustness in cattle / edited by Marija Klopcic [and others].

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (281 pages :) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9086866573, 9789086866571
  • oclc:ocn897015227
  • LC Classification:SF201
  • Dewey Decimal:636.2082

Table of Contents

""Introduction""; ""Table of contents""; ""Part 1 General concepts""; ""The role of environmental sensitivity and plasticity in breeding for robustness: lessons from evolutionary genetics""; ""Genetic concepts to improve robustness of dairy cows""; ""Robustness as a breeding goal and its relation with health, welfare and integrity""; ""Robustness in dairy cows: experimental studies of reproduction, fertility, behaviour and welfare""; ""An international perspective on breeding for robustness in dairy cattle""

""Co-operation between Nordic and US Holstein alters the ratio between the traits that contribute to total merit""""Predictive ability of different models for clinical mastitis in joint genetic evaluation for Sweden, Denmark and Finland""; ""Breeding for improved disease resistance in ruminants""; ""Do robust dairy cows already exist?""; ""Part 2 Longevity""; ""A review on breeding for functional longevity of dairy cow""

""Heritability of lifetime milk yield and productive life and their relationship with production and functional traits in the Simmental, Swiss Fleckvieh and Red Holstein populations in Switzerland""""Genetic correlation between persistency and calving interv…

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