Genetic dissection of phenotypic diversity in farm animals

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 130-138

  Andersson, Leif ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0035260692     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35052563     Document Type: Review

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