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Sex-specific genetic parameter estimates of body weight in Mazandaran indigenous chickens.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Jul 2024
Esmaeili Mohammad, Gholizadeh Mohsen, Hafezian Hasan, Farhadi Ayoub
Abstract excerpt
Body weight is an economically important trait in poultry that shows sexual dimorphism (SD). In the present study, variation in SD in Mazandaran native chickens was investigated in terms of the (Co) variance components and genetic parameters of body weight between males and females. Studied traits were body weights at hatch (BW1), 8 weeks (BW8) and 12 weeks of age (BW12). Also, for weight at sexual maturity (WSM)...
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