This study was conducted at Beresa watershed district of Guraghe Administrative Zone, the southern Regional State of Ethiopia to evaluate the on-farm reproductive and egg production performances of local Kei and its F1 crosses with Fayoumi and Rhode Island Red (RIR) chicken breeds under farmers’ management. The local Kei paternal line was mated with maternal lines of Fayoumi and RIR chickens to...

Gilts were the progeny of eight Duroc, nine Meishan, eight Fengjing, and seven Minzhu boars mated to composite (1/4 Chester White, 1/4 Landrace, 1/4 Large White, and 1/4 Yorkshire) females. Age at puberty was youngest (P < .05) for Meishan and Fengjing crosses followed by Minzhu crosses and then Duroc crosses. Fengjing crosses had a higher (P < .05) ovulation rate than Meishan or Minzhu crosses...

Statement of problem and methods employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538 Pollen-tube growth in diploid plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pollen-tube growth in tetraploid plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tetraploid...

Rodent inbred line crosses are widely used to map genetic loci associated with complex traits. This approach has proven to be powerful for detecting quantitative trait loci (QTL); however, the resolution of QTL locations, typically approximately 20 cM, means that hundreds of genes are implicated as potential candidates. We describe analytical methods based on linear models to combine informatio...