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Associations of myostatin gene polymorphisms with performance and mortality traits in broiler chickens

Myostatin is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. We evaluated effects of myostatin polymorphisms in three elite commercial broiler chicken lines on mortality, growth, feed conversion efficiency, ultrasound breast depth, breast percentage, eviscerated carcass weight, leg defects, blood ox...

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Autores principales: Ye, Xianghai, Brown, Stewart R, Nones, Kátia, Coutinho, Luiz L, Dekkers, Jack CM, Lamont, Susan J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17212949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-39-1-73