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Mode of inheritance of the low score normal condition in chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Sept 2001
Velleman S G, Nestor K E
Abstract excerpt
The abnormal muscle condition termed low score normal (LSN) was first detected in an outcross of chickens with hereditary muscular dystrophy (MD) to a commercial White Leghorn stock. At 2 to 3 mo of age, normal birds can right themselves between 15 and 20 times (exhaustion score) when placed on their back on a flat surface, whereas birds with MD cannot right themselves under similar conditions. Birds classified...
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