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Genetic control of incubation behavior in the domestic hen.
Poultry science - 1 Jul 2002
Romanov M N, Talbot R T, Wilson P W, Sharp P J
Abstract excerpt
The genetic control of incubation behavior was investigated in the domestic hen by analysis of the incidence of the behavior in reciprocal crosses between nonbroody White Leghorn (WL) and broody Bantam (B) lines and in a backcross of F1 males (WL male x B female) and WL females. The hypothesis tested was that a sex-linked gene (or genes) plays a dominant role in the expression of incubation behavior. The...
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