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Interaction of direct and social genetic effects with feeding regime in growing rabbits.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 20 Jul 2017
Piles Miriam, David Ingrid, Ramon Josep, Canario Laurianne, Rafel Oriol, Pascual Mariam, Ragab Mohamed, Sánchez Juan P
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BACKGROUND: Most rabbit production farms apply feed restriction at fattening because of its protective effect against digestive diseases that affect growing rabbits. However, it leads to competitive behaviour between cage mates, which is not observed when animals are fed ad libitum. Our aim was to estimate the contribution of direct ([Formula: see text]) and social ([Formula: see text]) genetic effects (also...
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