The Journal of Heredity 2002:93(2)
© 2002 The American Genetic Association 93:107-118
Genetic Architecture of Growth and Body Composition in Unique Chicken Populations
From the Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, 2255 Kildee Hall, Ames, IA 50011.
Address correspondence to Susan J. Lamont at the address above or e-mail: sjlamont{at}iastate.edu.
A resource population was established by crossing one modern broiler sire from a commercial broiler breeder male line with dams from two unrelated highly inbred lines; F1 birds were intercrossed to produce two F2 populations. A variety of phe notypic measurements related to growth, muscling, internal organs, and skeleton were recorded for the F2 populations and contemporary pure inbred and broiler birds. Based on the means and phenotypic distributions of the F2 populations com pared to their parental lines, the effective number of genes affecting each trait and heterosis were estimated and discussed relative to the known genetic selection history for each trait. The results suggest that a high number of genes with small epistatic effects are involved in determining the phenotype for traits that broilers were traditionally selected for, and a lower number of genes with major effects are involved in determining the phenotype for traits related to fitness. The estimated number of genes and the phenotypic distributions of the different traits suggest that a quantitative trait loci (QTL) search might be more effectively applied for traits with a low number of involved genes and a high phenotypic distribution among the F2 birds than for traits that show a lower phenotypic distribution and a high number of genes.
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