Assessment of residual body weight gain and residual intake and body weight gain as feed efficiency traits in the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Willems, Owen W ^a   Miller, Stephen P ^a   Wood, Benjamin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Hybrid Turkeys   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; POULTRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TIME; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TIME FACTORS; TURKEYS;

EID: 84880102361     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-45-26     Document Type: Article

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