Mapping of quantitative trait loci affecting organ weights and blood variables in a broiler layer cross

British Poultry Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-442

  Navarro, P ^a,b   Visscher, P M ^b   Knott, S A ^b   Burt, D W ^a   Hocking, P M ^a   Haley, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN STOMACH; BLOOD; BREEDING; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; INTESTINE; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GIZZARD; HEART; INTESTINES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

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EID: 24644438319     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: 14661799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071660500158055     Document Type: Article

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