A study of association between genetic markers in candidate genes and reproductive traits in one generation of a commercial broiler breeder hen population

Heredity

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 128-134

  Dunn, I C ^a   Miao, Y W ^a   Morris, A ^b   Romanov, M N ^a,c   Wilson, P W ^a   Waddington, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Cobb Breeding Company ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Candidate genes; Gallus gallus; Reproduction; SNP

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PRIMER DNA;

GENETIC MARKER; POULTRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; EGGS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GROWTH HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OVIPOSITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECEPTORS, LHRH; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 1042290213     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800396     Document Type: Article

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