Pigmentation types - Understanding the heritability and importance

Wool Technology and Sheep Breeding

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 264-280

  Fleet, Malcolm ^a  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culling Merino sheep; Pigmentation; Production

Indexed keywords

BREEDING, SHEEP; SHEEP, MERINO; WOOL, MERINO;

EID: 0030426626     PISSN: 00437875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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