QTL analysis of body weight and conformation score in commercial broiler chickens using variance component and half-sib analyses

Animal Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 269-272

  Rowe, S J ^a   Windsor, D ^a   Haley, C S ^a   Burt, D W ^a   Hocking, P M ^a   Griffin, H ^a   Vincent, J ^b   De Koning, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Cobb Breeding Company Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body weight; Conformation; Poultry; Quantitative trait loci; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33744478895     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2006.01424.x     Document Type: Article

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