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Correlated responses to long-term selection for clutch length in dwarf brown-egg layers carrying or not carrying the naked neck gene.
Poultry science - 1 May 2003
Chen C F, Tixier-Boichard M
Abstract excerpt
Two dwarf brown-egg layer lines, differing in their genotype for the naked neck gene (NA), line L2 (NA*NA/*NA) and line L1 (NA*N/*N), have been selected for 16 generations for increased average clutch length. A control line from the same base population, dwarf and segregating for the NA gene, was maintained by random mating. Genetic parameters were estimated by a multivariate derivative-free restricted maximum...
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