Egg shell quality in Japanese quail: characteristics, heritabilities and genetic and phenotypic relationships

The objective of the present study was to estimate heritabilities as well as genetic and phenotypic correlations for egg weight, specific gravity, shape index, shell ratio, egg shell strength, egg length, egg width and shell weight in Japanese quail eggs. External egg quality traits were measured on...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: D. Narinc, A. Aygun, E. Karaman, T. Aksoy
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Schriftenreihe:Animal
Schlagworte:
Online Zugang:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731115000506