Common determinants of body size and eye size in chickens from an advanced intercross line

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-48

  Prashar, Ankush ^a   Hocking, Paul M ^b,c   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^a   Fan, Qiao ^d   Saw, Seang Mei ^d   Guggenheim, Jeremy A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

axial length; corneal curvature; eye size; genetics; height; myopia; refractive error

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADVANCED INTERCROSS LINE; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CROSS BREEDING; ENUCLEATION; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KERATOMETRY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CHICKENS; CORNEA; CROSSES, GENETIC; EYE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 67349155564     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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