Design and comparison of gene-pyramiding schemes in animals

Marker-assisted gene pyramiding provides a promising way to develop new animal breeds or lines, in which genes responsible for certain favorable characters identified in different breeds or lines are incorporated. In consideration of features of animal populations, we proposed five schemes for pyram...

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Main Authors: F.P. Zhao, L. Jiang, H.J. Gao, X.D. Ding, Q. Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2009-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731109004492