Quantitative genetic studies on growth and reproductive traits in broiler chickens

This thesis considers three major quantitative genetic topics characteristic of growth and reproductive traits in broiler breeding, i.e. (1) the estimation of maternal effects in juvenile body weight (JBWT), (2) selection for food conversion into growth defined as a ratio (FCR), and (3) non-normalit...

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Main Author: Koerhuis, Alphonsus Nicolaas Maria
Published: University of Edinburgh 1996
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653518