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Genetic evaluation of meat quality traits and their correlation with growth and carcase composition in Japanese quail.
British poultry science - 1 Jan 2012
Zerehdaran S, Lotfi E, Rasouli Z
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1. Estimates of heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations of performance and meat quality traits were obtained in a population of Japanese quail using restricted maximum likelihood (REML) procedures. 2. The heritability estimates for body weight (BW) traits ranged from 0·15 at hatch to 0·42 at six weeks. For carcase composition traits, heritability estimates ranged from 0·12 for carcase yield to 0·26...
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