Metabolic and organ mass responses to selection for high growth rates in the domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 237-248

  Konarzewski, Marek ^a   Gavin, Amanda ^b   McDevitt, Regina ^b   Wallis, Ian R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHICKENS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034084761     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316729     Document Type: Article

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