Kinetics of antibody responses in hens from chicken lines divergently selected for response to sheep red blood cells

Poultry Science

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1081-1084

  Yang, Ning ^a,b   Dunnington, E A ^a   Siegel, P B ^a  

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

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antibody response; Chicken; Maternal antibody; Sheep erythrocytes

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KINETICS; SHEEP;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CHICKENS; ERYTHROCYTES; KINETICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SHEEP;

EID: 0033172911     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/78.8.1081     Document Type: Article

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