Associations of myostatin gene polymorphisms with performance and mortality traits in broiler chickens

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-89

  Ye, Xianghai ^a   Brown, Stewart R ^b   Nones, Kátia ^c   Coutinho, Luiz L ^c   Dekkers, Jack C M ^a   Lamont, Susan J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aviagen   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Broiler chicken; Growth; Mortality; Myostatin; SNP

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH; MORTALITY; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMORPHISM; POULTRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

GALLUS GALLUS; INFECTIOUS BURSAL DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 33846197548     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2006029     Document Type: Article

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