Genetic effects of polymorphisms in candidate genes and the QTL region on chicken age at first egg

BMC Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Xu, Haiping ^a   Zeng, Hua ^a   Luo, Chenglong ^b   Zhang, Dexiang ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Sun, Liang ^a   Yang, Lishan ^a   Zhou, Min ^c   Nie, Qinghua ^a   Zhang, Xiquan ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c Jiangxi Cancer Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GONADORELIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

AGE AT FIRST EGG; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHICKEN; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME Z; EGG; ENDOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GNRH I GENE; HAPLOTYPE; HATCHING; INTRON; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SH3GL2 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MUTATION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 79955090201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-12-33     Document Type: Article

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