Selection for body weight at eight weeks of age. 20. Production traits and the B and C alloantigen systems.

doi:10.3382/ps.0711583

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Selection for body weight at eight weeks of age. 20. Production traits and the B and C alloantigen systems.

Poultry science - 1 Oct 1992

Boa-Amponsem K, Briles W E, Briles R W, Dunnington E A, Siegel P B

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The current study evaluated influence of genotypes of the B and C alloantigen systems on production traits in lines of White Plymouth Rock chickens. Lines had been selected previously for high (HWS) or low (LWS) 8-wk BW and after 27 generations of selection, a random sample of each selected line...

Topics

Animals
Body Weight
Chickens
Female
Genotype
Isoantigens
Major Histocompatibility Complex
Male
Oviposition

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