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Altering poultry sex ratios

Published: August 11, 2009
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Chickens, like most animals, typically produce equal numbers of males and females. But this natural sex ratio doesn't always work in the poultry industry's economic favor. A University of Georgia researcher is working on ways to skew the chicken's sex ratio to help the industry streamline production and make more money. Chickens are big business in Georgia, worth $4.9 bln in 2008, or 41% of ...
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Gobinath Shanmugasundram
29 de noviembre de 2012
It looks like a very much expected one, what is the present status of this research?
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