Genome-wide QTL mapping for three traits related to teat number in a White Duroc × Erhualian pig resource population

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ding, Nengshui ^a,b   Guo, Yuanmei ^a   Knorr, Christoph ^b   Ma, Junwu ^a   Mao, Huirong ^a   Lan, Lütao ^a   Xiao, Shijun ^a   Ai, Huashui ^a   Haley, Chris S ^c   Brenig, Bertram ^b   Huang, Lusheng ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BREAST EXAMINATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; NIPPLE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SWINE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; UDDER;

SUIDAE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 65449137919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-6     Document Type: Article

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