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Turkey Breeding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

G. A. Clayton
G. A. Clayton
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Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , November 1974, pp. 290 - 300
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