Natural Selection and Egg Size in Poultry
- 1 November 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 85 (825) , 365-372
- https://doi.org/10.1086/281690
Abstract
Exptl. evidence is given for the operation of natural selection for egg size in populations of domestic fowl. As a rule the counter-force of artificial selection in commercial flocks maintains avg. egg size above the optimum for reproduction.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The manifold effect of selectionHeredity, 1949
- The manifold effect of selectionHeredity, 1949
- Relation of Egg Weight to Chick Weight at Hatching.Poultry Science, 1922