Current Status of Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping in Livestock Species

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 587-596

  Kim, Jong Joo ^a,b   Park, Young I ^a,c  

^a GenomicFX   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Candidate Gene; Fine Mapping; Interval Mapping; Marker Assisted Selection; Quantitative Trait Loci

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035585086     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2001.587     Document Type: Article

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