Genetic Dissection of Growth Traits in a Unique Chicken Advanced Intercross Line

The advanced intercross line (AIL) that is created by successive generations of pseudo-random mating after the F2 generation is a valuable resource, especially in agricultural livestock and poultry species, because it improves the precision of quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping compared with trad...

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Main Authors: Yuzhe Wang, Lina Bu, Xuemin Cao, Hao Qu, Chunyuan Zhang, Jiangli Ren, Zhuolin Huang, Yiqiang Zhao, Chenglong Luo, Xiaoxiang Hu, Dingming Shu, Ning Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2020.00894/full