Investigating the turkey's 'snood' as a morphological marker of heritable disease resistance

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 176-185

  Buchholz, R ^a   Jones Dukes, M D ^b   Hecht, S ^c   Findley, A M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b North Louisiana Crime Laboratory   (United States)

^c GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 2942616752     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2004.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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