Comparative analysis of quantitative trait loci for body weight, growth rate and growth curve parameters from 3 to 72 weeks of age in female chickens of a broiler-layer cross

BMC Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Podisi, Baitsi K ^a,c   Knott, Sara A ^b   Burt, David W ^a   Hocking, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Body weight; Broiler; Epistasis; Growth curve; Layer; QTL

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BROILER; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84874801130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-14-22     Document Type: Article

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