Combining traditional breeding and genomics to improve pork quality

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 235-239

  Heuven, H C M ^a   Van Wijk, H J ^b   Van Arendonk, J A M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Pig Genetics BV IPG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breeding; Genomics; Pork quality; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346398217     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000003322740676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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