Approaches to determine the sex prior to and after incubation of chicken eggs and of day-old chicks

World's Poultry Science Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-399

  Kaleta, E F ^a   Redmann, T ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicks; Cytogenetics; DNA typing; Eggs; Sexing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 51349097886     PISSN: 00439339     EISSN: 17434777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043933908000111     Document Type: Article

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