Correlated responses and parameter changes in a bidirectional selection experiment for body weight in chickens
The investigation reported here involved truncation-type individual selection in divergent directions for body weight at eight weeks of age in White Rocks. Phenotypic changes of selection and unselected traits within lines were measured for females from the P₁ through the F₇ generation. Unselected t...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74608 |