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Effect of ignoring full sib relationships when making half sib estimates of heritability

โœ Scribed by N. Jackson

Book ID
104698990
Publisher
Springer
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
415 KB
Volume
65
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-5752

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