Direct and Correlated Responses to Long-Term Selection for Increased Body Weight and Egg Production in Turkeys
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- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Poultry Science
- Vol. 75 (10) , 1180-1191
- https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0751180
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