Accounting for numbers of expressions of specific genotypes using a modified gene-flow method

Livestock Science

Volumn 114, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 241-250

  Nishio, M ^a   Kahi, A K ^b   Hirooka, H ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cumulative discounted expressions; Gene flow; Genotype

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 40849083819     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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