Metabolic and digestive responses to artificial selection in chickens

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1638-1650

  Jackson, Sue ^a,b   Diamond, Jared ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conscious selection; domestication; energy budget; growth rate; intestinal transporters; metabolic rate; organ mass; unconscious selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029802116     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03936.x     Document Type: Article

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