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Animal model analysis of genetic (co)variances for growth traits in Japanese quail.
Poultry science - 1 Dec 1994
Aggrey S E, Cheng K M
Abstract excerpt
Records of 1,530 Japanese quail were used to estimate heritabilities and genetic correlations based on a derivative-free restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method with an animal model and ANOVA. The animal model included fixed effects of hatch and sex, random effects of additive genetic value of the bird, and common environmental effect of the dam. Heritabilities estimated from REML for body weights at hatch,...
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