Heritability and genetic trends of number of kits born alive in a synthetic maternal rabbit line

Heritability and genetic trends for number of kits born alive in a synthetic maternal rabbit line were estimated in this study. The data were collected from 1999 to 2007 on 5640 kindlings of 1425 does. The total number of animals in the pedigree was 2576. The mean number of kits born alive was 8.42...

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Main Authors: Zsolt Szendrő, Edit Bíróné Németh, István Radnai, István Nagy, Petra Gyovai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2010-01-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
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Online Access:http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/767