Predicting direct and indirect breeding values for survival time in laying hens using repeated measures

BACKGROUND: Minimizing bird losses is important in the commercial layer industry. Selection against mortality is challenging because heritability is low, censoring is high, and individual survival depends on social interactions among cage members. With cannibalism, mortality depends not only on an i...

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Autores principales: Brinker, Tessa, Ellen, Esther D., Veerkamp, Roel F., Bijma, Piter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26416791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0152-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26416791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0152-2

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