The contribution of social effects to heritable variation in finishing traits of domestic pigs (Sus scrofa)

Genetics

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1559-1570

  Bergsma, R ^a,b,c   Kanis, E ^b   Knol, E F ^a   Bijma, P ^b  

^a IPG   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Pig Genetics BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; DOMESTIC PIG; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 45149119790     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.084236     Document Type: Article

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