Heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations of egg quality traits in iranian native fowl

British Poultry Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 740-744

  Begli, H Emamgholi ^a   Zerehdaran, S ^a   Hassani, S ^a   Abbasi, M A ^b   Ahmadi, A R Khan ^c  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^b ANIMAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c Gonbad High Education Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EGG; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; IRAN; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; EGG SHELL; EGGS; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; IRAN; MALE; OVUM; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650244249     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: 14661799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2010.528750     Document Type: Article

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