On the evaluation of chicken egg shape variability

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 69-74

  Havlíček, Miroslav ^a   Nedomová, Šárka ^a   Simeonovová, Jana ^a   Severa, Libor ^a   Křivánek, Ivo ^a  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chicken egg; Elliptic Fourier analysis; Shape variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 57449091351     PISSN: 12118516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11118/actaun200856050069     Document Type: Article

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