Mode of Inheritance of Unselected Traits in Lines of Chickens Selected for High or Low Antibody Response to Sheep Red Blood Cells. 1. Resistance to Marble Spleen Disease Virus and Juvenile Body Weight

Poultry Science

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1073-1080

  Boa Amponsem, K ^a   Larsen, C T ^a   Dunnington, E A ^a   Price, S E H ^a   Yang, A ^a   Siegel, P B ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; Heterosis; Marble spleen disease; Sheep red blood cells; Spleen

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AVIADENOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CROSS BREEDING; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH; HETEROSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHEEP; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; AVIADENOVIRUS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; CROSSES, GENETIC; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GROWTH; HYBRID VIGOR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP;

EID: 0032134501     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/77.8.1073     Document Type: Article

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