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Animal Breeding in the light of recent advances in Population Genetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

G. McBride
G. McBride
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Unit of Animal Behaviour, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1965 , pp. 314 - 328
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