Mapping of multiple quantitative trait loci for growth and carcass traits in a complex commercial sheep pedigree

A. F. McRae; S. C. Bishop; G. A. Walling; A. D. Wilson; P. M. Visscher

doi:10.1079/ASC41040135

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