Determination of Residual Feed Intake and Its Associations with Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Chickens
Marker assisted selection (MAS) for residual feed intake (RFI) is considered to be one of the powerful means to improve feed conversion efficiency, and therefore reduce production costs. To test the inner relationship among body compositions, growth traits and RFI, four models were proposed to asses...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Integrative Agriculture |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311913603834 |