Release 56
(Apr 24, 2025)

Chicken Trait Details: Body weight gain

QTLdb Trait Hierarchy

Trait Class:Production
Trait Type: Growth
Trait Name: Body weight gain
Trait ID:7325
Abbreviation:BWGAIN
Custom Name:n/a
Related / Reported traits:
(Figures in parenthesis are the number of data associated with)
Body weight gain (2) // Body weight gain (259) // Growth (0-14 days) (3) // Growth (1-8 days) (16) // Growth (105-119 days) (2) // Growth (112-200 days) (6) // Growth (119-133 days) (7) // Growth (14-28 days) (2) // Growth (147-161 days) (2) // Growth (161-175 days) (11) // Growth (21-42 days) (11) // Growth (28-42 days) (2) // Growth (42-56 days) (3) // Growth (42-63 days) (4) // Growth (46-112 days) (17) // Growth (49-56 days) (1) // Growth (56-70 days) (3) // Growth (63-77 days) (2) // Growth (70-77 days) (1) // Growth (8-46 days) (17) // Growth (post-challenge) (9)
Description:Increase in an organism's body weight over a specified period of time
Measurement:final weight - initial weight
Scale/Unit:n/a
Comments:n/a

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Links to Formal Trait Ontology

Vertebrate Trait Ontology:[VT:0001731] Postnatal growth trait
Product Trait Ontology: (n/a)
Clinical Measurement Ontology:[CMO:0000420] Body weight gain
  • The Vertebrate Trait (VT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to the morphology, physiology, or development of vertebrate organisms
  • The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO) is designed to be used to standardize morphological and physiological measurement records generated from clinical and model organism research and health programs.
  • Product Trait (PT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to products produced by or obtained from the body of an agricultural animal or bird maintained for use and profit.
REFERENCE
Park CA, Bello SM, Smith CL, Hu ZL, Munzenmaier DH, Nigam R, Smith JR, Shimoyama M, Eppig JT, Reecy JM. (2013) The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013, 4(1):13.

 

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