Search for QTL affecting the shape of the egg laying curve of the Japanese quail

BMC Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Minvielle, Francis ^a   Kayang, Boniface B ^a,b   Inoue Murayama, Miho ^b   Miwa, Mitsuru ^b   Vignal, Alain ^a   Gourichon, David ^a   Neau, André ^c   Monvoisin, Jean Louis ^a   Ito, Shin'ichi ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GROWTH CURVE; JAPAN; LACTATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUAIL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COTURNIX; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OVIPOSITION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA;

EID: 33744794018     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-26     Document Type: Article

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