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Some Implications of Selection Results in Poultry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

G. A. Clayton
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1968 , pp. 37 - 57
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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