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Association of dominant marker traits and metric traits in chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Aug 1993
Shoffner R N, Otis J S, Garwood V A
Abstract excerpt
This study was initiated to determine whether an allelic substitution of a dominant marker gene would identify a region close to a locus affecting expression in a metric trait. The rationale for the experiment was to utilize disequilibrium between a multiple recessive randombred Rhode Island Red (RRc) stock previously selected for quantitative trait performance and an unimproved dominant marker stock (MDM). The...
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