Genetic and environmental influences on size of first litter in sheep, estimated by the REML method
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics
- Vol. 117 (1), 57-64
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0388.2000.00228.x
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