Genetic Variability in White Leghorns Revealed by Chicken Liver Expressed Sequence Tags

Poultry Science

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 134-139

  Li, S ^a   Liu, N ^a   Zadworny, D ^a   Kuhnlein, U ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chicken liver; Expressed sequence tag; Genetic variation; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; White Leghorn

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; ENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; RNA 16S; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANADA; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTH AMERICA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENZYMES; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031613263     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/77.1.134     Document Type: Article

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