Many QTLs with minor additive effects are associated with a large difference in growth between two selection lines in chickens

Genetical Research

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-125

  Jacobsson, Lina ^a   Park, Hee Bok ^b   Wahlberg, Per ^b   Fredriksson, Robert ^b   Perez Enciso, Miguel ^c,d   Siegel, Paul B ^e   Andersson, Leif ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 29244437178     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672305007767     Document Type: Article

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