The genetic parameters of feed efficiency and its component traits in the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Case, Lindsay A ^a   Wood, Benjamin J ^a,b   Miller, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Hybrid Turkeys   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; POULTRY; PRODUCTION COST; WEIGHT;

MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; EATING; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; EATING; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TURKEYS;

EID: 84863407626     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-44-2     Document Type: Article

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