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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University of Edinburgh
1996
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653518 |