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Inbred strains of chickens have not yet been widely used either in biomedical or in poultry research. This is partly because of the difficulties of developing fully inbred strains, and partly because of past uncertainty about their value in research, particularly in poultry science.
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Festing, M.F.W. (1979). Inbred Strains of Chickens. In: Inbred Strains in Biomedical Research. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03816-9_18
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