Comparison of Outbred Lines of Chickens for Resistance to Experimental Infection with Coccidiosis (Eimeria tenella)

Poultry Science

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-191

  Pinard Van Der Laan, M H ^a   Monvoisin, J L ^a   Pery, P ^b   Hamet, N ^c   Thomas, M ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Chicken; Coccidiosis; Dwarf gene; Major histocompatibility complex; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DWARFISM; EIMERIA TENELLA; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; DWARFISM; EIMERIA TENELLA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 0031989605     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/77.2.185     Document Type: Review

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