Evaluation of the performance of naked neck (Na/Na, Na/na) and dwarf (dw/dw, dw/-) gene lines under low selection intensity

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 975-979

  Reddy, B L N ^a   Sharma, R P ^a   Niranjan, M ^a   Chatterjee, R N ^a  

^a PROJECT DIRECTORATE ON POULTRY   (India)

Author keywords

Body weight; Dwarf; Genetic correlation; Heritability; Naked neck

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049161879     PISSN: 03678318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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