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Egg yolk environment differentially influences physiological and morphological development of broiler and layer chicken embryos.
The Journal of experimental biology - 15 Feb 2011
Ho Dao H, Reed Wendy L, Burggren Warren W
Abstract excerpt
Maternal effects are important in epigenetic determination of offspring phenotypes during all life stages. In the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), transgenerational transfer of egg yolk factors may set the stage for morphological and physiological phenotypic differences observed among breeds. To investigate the effect of breed-specific yolk composition on embryonic broiler and layer chicken phenotypes, we...
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