Industry benefits from recent genetic progress in sheep and beef populations
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Animal
- Vol. 1 (10), 1414-1426
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s175173110700078x
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