Searching for phenotypic causal networks involving complex traits: An application to European quail

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Valente, Bruno D ^a,b   Rosa, Guilherme J M ^b,c   Silva, Martinho A ^a   Teixeira, Rafael B ^d   Torres, Robledo A ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EGG; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; PHASIANIDAE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUAIL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MODELS, GENETIC; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; QUAIL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84858128651     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-43-37     Document Type: Article

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