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Five consecutive generations of full-sib matings in Japanese quail reduced the initial 17 inbred lines to six. In general, fertility, hatchability and egg production were affected to a greater extent by inbreeding than were body weights and egg weights.
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Kulenkamp et al. (1973) studied this question.
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