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Potential usefulness of the Na (Naked Neck) gene in poultry production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

P. Merat
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Laboratoire de Génétique Factorielle, Centre National de Recherches Zootechniques I.N.R.A., 78350 Jouy-en-JosasFrance
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