Empirical Validation of the Dominance Model for Beef Cattle
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SUMMARY ds of Hereford. 25% Simmental-75% Hereford. 50% Simmental-50% CI fro-770 r~~o~ental-25% Hereford cows were used to evaluate whether breed ord and 75% at:rnal traits agreed with expectations based on the dominance model. .,ans for ~ consistent with practices for western range environments. Cow breed re .anag e t for 17 of the 18 traits studied. The measure of goodness of fit of the siif!1fican to the dominance model was the R2 value associated with the linear ,roup .ean: ed group means on proportion of Simmental for the first three breed 01\ of bfr the traits agreed with the dominance model expectation (83% of the R2 JIOSt 0
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تاریخ انتشار 2013