Measurement of genetic variation within and between Japanese quail lines using DNA fingerprinting.

doi:10.1093/ps/77.12.1755

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Measurement of genetic variation within and between Japanese quail lines using DNA fingerprinting.

Poultry science - 1 Dec 1998

Ye X, Zhu J, Velleman S G, Bacon W L, Nestor K E

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The objective of the present experiment was to study genetic variation within and among well-defined Japanese quail lines by DNA fingerprinting. The Japanese quail lines included a randombred control line (R1) and lines developed from R1 by divergent selection over 30 generations for 4-wk BW (HW,...

Topics

Animals
Body Weight
Coturnix
DNA Fingerprinting
Female
Genetic Variation
Inbreeding
Male

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