QTL for live weight traits in Pere David's x red deer interspecies hybrids

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 643-647

  Goosen, G J C ^a,d   Dodds, K G ^a   Tate, M L ^b   Fennessy, P F ^c  

^a INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Roslin Institute ^*  (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DEER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; ELAPHURUS DAVIDIANUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032707264     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/90.6.643     Document Type: Article

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