Impact of biotechnology on (cross)breeding programmes in pigs

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 57-70

  Visscher, Peter ^a   Pong Wong, Ricardo ^b   Whittemore, Colin ^a   Haley, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREED; COMBINING ABILITY; CROSSBREEDING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROSIS; INTROGRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIPLE OVULATION AND EMBRYO TRANSFER; RECURRENT SELECTION; SWINE;

EID: 0034072385     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(99)00180-3     Document Type: Article

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