Genetic parameter estimates of weekly body weight and Richard's growth curve in Japanese quail
Authors:
- S. KaplanSKS. Kaplan
- D. NarinçDND. Narinç
- E.K. GürcanEGE.K. Gürcan
Open Access
- 1 January 2016
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in European Poultry Science
- Vol. 80, 1-10
Abstract
Introduction Modern genetic improvement methodologies used in chicken and turkey species have not been performed in breeding studies of quail. The genetic improvement studies in quail have been done only on the experimental level, and contrary toKeywords
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