Quantitative traits in chicken associated with DNA fingerprint bands.

doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8583-6_35

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Quantitative traits in chicken associated with DNA fingerprint bands.

EXS - 1 Jan 1993

Dolf G, Schläpfer J, Hagger C, Stranzinger G, Gaillard C

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In an unselected control line of a selection experiment in chicken the following traits were evaluated: number of eggs, average egg weight, egg mass, age at first egg, body weight at 20 weeks, body weight at 40 weeks, feed consumption and feed efficiency (feed consumption/egg mass). Data and bloo...

Topics

Alleles
Animal Husbandry
Animals
Body Weight
Chickens
DNA
DNA Fingerprinting
Eating
Female
Oviposition

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