Segregation analysis of blood oxygen saturation in broilers suggests a major gene influence on ascites

British Poultry Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 671-684

  Navarro, P ^a,b   Visscher, P M ^b   Chatziplis, D ^c   Koerhuis, A N M ^c   Haley, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Aviagen   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CHICKEN; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; ASCITES; CHICKENS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); OXYGEN; POULTRY DISEASES;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33845742422     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: 14661799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071660601077931     Document Type: Article

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