Strategies to assess structural variation in the chicken genome and its associations with biodiversity and biological performance

Poultry Science

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2061-2078

  Soller, M ^a   Weigend, S ^b   Romanov, M N ^c   Dekkers, J C M ^d   Lamont, S J ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Candidate gene; Genome; Quantitative trait gene; Structural variation

Indexed keywords

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EID: 33846103812     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/85.12.2061     Document Type: Review

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