Enhancing paternal rabbit line’s litter size through backcrossing strategy

After 39 generations of selection, a commercial paternal rabbit line, utilised by farmers through artificial inseminations with sperm from males in a three-way crossbreeding scheme based on average daily weight gain merit (ADG), present a deleterious effect on the reproductive performance. This pose...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Ragab, José S. Vicente, Francisco Marco-Jiménez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2024.2399226
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