Article
Associations of individual genomic heterozygosity, estimated by molecular fingerprinting, and of dam major histocompatibility complex with growth and egg production traits in layer chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Dec 1996
Cahaner A, Smith E J, Swenson S, Lamont S J
Abstract excerpt
Growth and egg production data from F2 layer chickens produced from a mating of MHC-heterozygous B15B44 sires to B15B44 and B15B43 dams were analyzed for associations with the level of the individual's genomic heterozygosity and dam MHC. The F1 sires and dams were produced from mating of birds from two genetically distinct, highly inbred lines. Genomic heterozygosity (expressed as composite band frequency, CBF)...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Chickens
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Female
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Genotype
- Growth
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Male
- Oviposition
- Regression Analysis