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A genome-wide association study for prolificacy in three Polish sheep breeds

Reproductive traits (especially litter size) are usually characterized by low heritability, and thus, phenotypic selection is often ineffective and slow. In order to improve fertility characteristics such as ovulation rate and litter size, it seems more effective to select breeding animals based on...

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Autores principales: Smołucha, Grzegorz, Gurgul, Artur, Jasielczuk, Igor, Kawęcka, Aldona, Miksza-Cybulska, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8032615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33608865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13353-021-00615-6