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Determination of the zygosity of ev21-K in late-feathering male White Leghorns using the polymerase chain reaction.
Poultry science - 1 Jul 1994
Iraqi F, Smith E J
Abstract excerpt
The dominant sex-linked late-feathering (LF) gene, K, is of commercial importance for sex determination at hatch. Knowledge of the zygosity of sequences associated with K would enable breeders to more efficiently select homozygous grandparent LF males on the maternal side of the standard feather-sex cross because all of their progeny would be LF, whereas only half of the progeny from heterozygous grandparent...
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