Investigation of nonlinear models to describe long-term egg production in japanese quail

Poultry Science

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1676-1682

  Narinc, Dogan ^a   Karaman, Emre ^a   Aksoy, Tulin ^a   Firat, Mehmet Ziya ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Egg production curve; Japanese quail; Nonlinear model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877943582     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2012-02511     Document Type: Article

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