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Genetic components of litter size variability in sheep

Classical selection for increasing prolificacy in sheep leads to a concomitant increase in its variability, even though the objective of the breeder is to maximise the frequency of an intermediate litter size rather than the frequency of high litter sizes. For instance, in the Lacaune sheep breed ra...

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Autores principales: SanCristobal-Gaudy, Magali, Bodin, Loys, Elsen, Jean-Michel, Chevalet, Claude
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11403747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-33-3-249