Article
QTL analysis of body composition and metabolic traits in an intercross between chicken lines divergently selected for growth.
Physiological genomics - 13 Apr 2006
Park Hee-Bok, Jacobsson Lina, Wahlberg Per, Siegel Paul B, Andersson Leif
Abstract excerpt
The high- and low-growth lines of chickens have been developed from a single founder population by divergent selection for body weight at 56 days of age for more than 40 generations. The two lines show a ninefold difference in body weight at selection age and several interesting correlated select...
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