DNA Tests in Prolific Sheep from Eight Countries Provide New Evidence on Origin of the Booroola (FecB) Mutation1
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- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 66 (6) , 1869-1874
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod66.6.1869
Abstract
Recent discoveries that high prolificacy in sheep carrying the Booroola gene (FecB) is the result of a mutation in the BMPIB receptor and high prolifKeywords
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