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Estimation of genetic variability and selection response for clutch length in dwarf brown-egg layers carrying or not the naked neck gene.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 1 Jan 2000
Chen Chih-Feng, Tixier-Boichard Michèle
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In order to investigate the possibility of using the dwarf gene for egg production, two dwarf brown-egg laying lines were selected for 16 generations on average clutch length; one line (L1) was normally feathered and the other (L2) was homozygous for the naked neck gene NA. A control line from the same base population, dwarf and segregating for the NA gene, was maintained during the selection experiment under...
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