Genetic dissection of growth traits in a Chinese indigenous × commercial broiler chicken cross.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In China, consumers often prefer indigenous broiler chickens over commercial breeds, as they have characteristic meat qualities requested within traditional culinary customs. However, the growth-rate of these indigenous breeds is slower than that of the commercial broilers, which means they have not yet reached their full economic value. Therefore, combining the valuable meat quality of the native chickens with the efficiency of the commercial broilers is of interest. In this study, we generated an F2 intercross between the slow growing native broiler breed, Huiyang Beard chicken, and the fast growing commercial broiler breed, High Quality chicken Line A, and used it to map loci explaining the difference in growth rate between these breeds.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Sheng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3679733 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature