Quantitative trait loci for bone traits segregating independently of those for growth in an F2 broiler x layer cross

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 296-304

  Sharman, P W A ^a,b   Morrice, D R ^b   Law, A S ^b   Burt, D W ^b   Hocking, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DISEASE; BONE GROWTH; CHONDRODYSPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; GENOTYPE; LEG LENGTHENING; MALE; METATARSAL BONE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BREEDING; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 34547637869     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103191     Document Type: Article

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