Linkage relationships of the Z-linked silver, slow feathering, and pop-eye loci

J J Bitgood1

  • 1Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA. bitgood@calshp.cals.wisc.edu

Poultry Science
|September 3, 1999
PubMed

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