Article
Evidence for quantitative trait loci affecting ovulation rate in pigs.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jun 1997
Rathje T A, Rohrer G A, Johnson R K
Abstract excerpt
Fifty-five microsatellite markers were scored in an F2 population of pigs (n = 114 females) developed at the University of Nebraska. The population was produced by crossing a line previously selected for 10 generations using an index of ovulation rate and embryonal survival and a line selected at random. The lines were from a common base population and differed by 6.7 ovulations and 3.1 fetuses at 50 d of...
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