Predicting heterosis for egg production traits in crossbred offspring of individual White Leghorn sires using genome-wide SNP data

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Amuzu Aweh, Esinam N ^a,b   Bovenhuis, Henk ^a   De Koning, Dirk Jan ^b   Bijma, Piter ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DOMINANCE; EGG PRODUCTION; GENOME; HETEROSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; CHICKEN; CROSS BREEDING; EGG; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HETEROSIS; MALE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CROSSES, GENETIC; EGGS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HYBRID VIGOR; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84926040216     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12711-015-0088-6     Document Type: Article

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