caa a22 4500 397568959 CHVBK 20180308164835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199608 xx s 000 0 eng 10.3382/ps.0750951 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.3382/ps.0750951 Heterosis and DNA Fingerprinting in Chickens [Elektronische Daten] [A. HABERFELD, E. A. DUNNINGTON, P. B. SIEGEL, J. HILLEL] Enhancement of performance in traits of economic importance by use of heterosis (hybrid vigor) is routine in poultry breeding. There is, however, no reliable method to predict the level of heterosis that will occur from the mating of individuals from two populations. DNA fingerprints (DFP) were used as a measure of genetic distance between mating pairs of chickens where each individual of a pair was from a different population; the association between that genetic distance and levels of heterosis in the offspring of those pairs was assessed for juvenile BW and for age at production of first egg. There was an inverse relationship between DFP bandsharing level of parents and heterosis in their offspring, suggesting that DFP may be useful in predicting heterosis. © 1996 Poultry Science Association, Inc. Breeding and Genetics nationallicence chicken nationallicence DNA nationallicence heterosis nationallicence molecular markers nationallicence HABERFELD A. Department of Poultry Science, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel, aut DUNNINGTON E. A. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0306, and aut SIEGEL P. B. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0306, and aut HILLEL J. Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel aut Poultry Science Oxford University Press 75/8(1996-08), 951-953 0032-5791 75:8<951 1996 75 ps https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0750951 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0750951 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- HABERFELD A. Department of Poultry Science, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DUNNINGTON E. A. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0306, and aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SIEGEL P. B. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0306, and aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- HILLEL J. Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Poultry Science Oxford University Press 75/8(1996-08), 951-953 0032-5791 75:8<951 1996 75 ps Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford