Articles | Volume 62, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-62-579-2019
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Recent advances in understanding genetic variants associated with growth, carcass and meat productivity traits in sheep (Ovis aries): an update
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