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Crossbreeding in Poultry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2007

W. F. van Tijen
W. F. van Tijen
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Spelderholt Institute for Poultry Research, Beekbergen, The Netherlands.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , May 1977, pp. 105 - 110
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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