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Mapping quantitative trait loci affecting some carcass and meat traits in duck (Anas platyrhynchos).
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Nov 2014
Mucha Sebastian, Grajewski Bartosz, Gornowicz Ewa, Lisowski Mirosław, Radziszewska Jolanta, Szwaczkowski Tomasz
Abstract excerpt
Contrary to chicken and livestock mammals, duck genome has not been explored much. Nowadays a relatively small number of reports on molecular variability and mapping of loci in Peking ducks has been published. Therefore, the objective of this study was to detect single loci affecting body weight, carcass and meat traits in Peking ducks (Anas platyrhynchos). The study was based on an F2 cross between two parental...
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