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Genetic Factors Affecting Egg Shell Quality*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

Peter Hunton
Peter Hunton
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Ontario Egg Producers' Marketing Board, 5799 Yonge Street Willowdale, Ontario Canada M2M 3V3
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 1982, pp. 75 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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Presented at the W.P.S.A., Spanish Branch, 19th Scientific Symposium, Barcelona, 4 November 1981.

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