Genetic, maternal, and environmental variance components for body weight and length of Atlantic cod at 2 points in life

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3513-3521

  Tosh, J J ^a   Garber, A F ^b,c   Trippel, E A ^c   Robinson, J A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Huntsman Marine Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^c ST ANDREWS BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic cod; Growth; Heritability; Maternal effect; Selection; Variance component

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GADUS MORHUA; MALE;

ANIMALIA; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 78049271494     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: 15253163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2009-2676     Document Type: Article

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