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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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| 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 |