Polymorphism of the leptin gene and its association with some performance reproductive traits of boars;Polymorphismus im leptin-gen in verbindung mit ausgewählten reproduktions-leistungen von ebern

Tierarztliche Umschau

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-83

  Kmieć, Marek ^a,c   Kulig, Hanna ^a   Wierzbicki, Heliodor ^b  

^a Abteilung für Tierhygiene und Prophylaxe   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Boars; Leptin gene (LEP); Semen characters; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33644593890     PISSN: 00493864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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