Genetic and environmental variation of body weight in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Aquaculture

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 71-80

  Su, Guo Sheng ^a,c   Liljedahl, Lars Erik ^a   Gall, Graham A E ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

body weight; common environmental effect; heritability; non additive genetic effect; Oncorhynchus mykiss; rainbow trout

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 0030578760     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(96)01306-3     Document Type: Article

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