Heterosis and reciprocal effects for egg laying traits estimated from a full diallel cross with six commercial White Leghorn lines, using mixed model analysis

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Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 115-120

  Groen, A F ^a   Van Heelsum, Annemarie ^a   Kimani, Catherine W ^a   Van Drunen, C P ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Euribrid B V ^*  (Netherlands)

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