TY - BOOK AU - Esteftah Mohamed Aly Elkomy AU - Abdelkhalek AboElftouh Elghamry , AU - Ahmed Abdellatif Elfar , AU - Essam Abbas Elgendy , TI - Growth pattern and molecular characteristics of native Egyptian chickens improved for meat production / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Esteftah Mohamed Aly Elkomy , KW - Growth KW - Local chickens KW - Microsatellites N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Animal Production; Issued also as CD N2 - The objective of the study was the evaluation of growth performance and the molecular pattern of a local crossbred population of chicks that has been selected five generations for increased 6-wk BW. Three populations, differing in their genetic backgrounds, were used as parental populations: a normally feathered local crossbred line (CEI), a slow-growing commercial broiler strain (SGB), and genetic control line CE2 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -