Genetics and genomics of feed utilization efficiency in poultry species
Résumé
1. Introduction
2. Breeding for poultry meat production
3. Feed efficiency
4. Factors contributing to genetic variation in feed efficiency
5. The role of metabolic systems in feed efficiency
6. Genetic architecture of feed efficiency
7. Mapping quantitative trait loci for feed efficiency
8. Unfavorable meat quality as a consequence of improving feed efficiency