Effect of the slow ($K$) or rapid ($k^{+}$) feathering gene on body and feather growth and fatness according to ambient temperature in a Leghorn $\times$ brown egg type cross

Chicks of both sexes issued from the cross of heterozygous $K/k^{+}$ cocks for the slow-feathering sex linked $K$ allele with $k^{+}$ (rapid feathering) hens, were compared from the age of 4 to 10 weeks at two ambient temperatures. In individual cages, 30 male chicks of each genotype ($K/k^{+}$ and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Genetics selection evolution (Paris) 2001, Vol.33 (6), p.659-670
Hauptverfasser: Fotsa, Jean-Claude, Mérat, Philippe, Bordas, André
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