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QTLs associated with growth traits and abdominal fat weight and their interactions with gender and hatch in commercial meat-type chickens.
Animal genetics - 1 Aug 2006
Atzmon G, Ronin Y I, Korol A, Yonash N, Cheng H, Hillel J
Abstract excerpt
Associations between microsatellite markers and traits related to growth and fatness were investigated using resource broiler population. A sire-line x dam-line F1 male was backcrossed to 12 dam-line females to produce 24 sires and 47 dams of the backcross 1 (BC1) generation. These 71 parents were genotyped with 76 microsatellite markers. Following full-sib mating among the parents, 234 BC1-F2 progeny were...
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