Broiler breeding strategies over the decades: An overview

World's Poultry Science Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-336

  Thiruvenkadan, A K ^a   Prabakaran, R ^b   Panneerselvam, S ^a  

^a VETERINARY COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b MADRAS VETERINARY COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

body weight; breeding strategies; broiler; meat quality; molecular genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960265727     PISSN: 00439339     EISSN: 17434777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043933911000328     Document Type: Review

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110. th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock production, Armidale, Australia, January 11-16, 1998.
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125. th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Armidale, Australia, January 11-16,1998.
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148. th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Montpellier, France, August 19-23, 2002.
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