Emergence of the chicken as a model organism: Implications for agriculture and biology

Poultry Science

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1460-1471

  Burt, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicken; Database; Evolution; Genome; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHICKEN; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; CHICKENS; GENOMICS; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 34548227419     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/86.7.1460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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