Evaluation of Naked neck broiler genotypes under tropical environment

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 463-466

  Rajkumar, U ^a   Rajaravindra, K S ^a   Niranjan, M ^a   Reddy, B L N ^a   Bhattacharya, T K ^a   Chatterjee, R N ^a   Sharma, R P ^a  

^a PROJECT DIRECTORATE ON POULTRY   (India)

Author keywords

Correlation; Gene frequency; Growth; Heritability; Naked neck

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 78649465133     PISSN: 03678318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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