Amplified fragment length polymorphic (AFLP ®) markers have been used to construct phylogenic trees of cattle (Ajmone-Marsan et al, 1997; Buntjer et al, 2002), pig (SanCristobal et al, 2002) and goat ...
The Virginia lines of chickens have resulted from more than 55 generations of artificial selection for low (LWS) or high (HWS) juvenile body weight. We hypothesized that the relative hyperphagia and ...