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Relationship between egg productivity and insulin-like growth factor-I genotypes in Korean native Ogol chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Jul 2004
Kim M H, Seo D S, Ko Y
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Endocrine factors, such as steroid hormones and growth factors, regulate egg productivity in terms of the quantity of egg production, egg weight, sexual maturity, and the number of small yellow follicles (SYF). Insulin-like growth factors (IGF) are involved in the regulation of ovulation rate and ovarian follicular development in chickens, and a relationship between IGF-I genotype and egg weight has been...
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