Identification of trait loci affecting white meat percentage and other growth and carcass traits in commercial broiler chickens

Poultry Science

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 593-605

  McElroy, J P ^a   Kim, J J ^a,c   Harry, D E ^b,d   Brown, S R ^b   Dekkers, J C M ^a   Lamont, S J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aviagen   (United States)

^c Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^d Genetic Foundations   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Growth; Imprinting; Quantitative trait loci; White meat percentage

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHICKEN; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHICKENS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEAT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33646917221     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/85.4.593     Document Type: Article

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