Resistance to Marek's disease virus in White Leghorn chickens: Effects of avian leukosis virus infection genotype, reciprocal mating, and major histocompatibilily complex

Poultry Science

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1064-1072

  Weigend, S ^a   Matthes, S ^a   Solkner J ^b   Lamont, S J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Major histocompatibility complex; Marek's disease; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; AVIAN LEUKOSIS; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; BREEDING; CHICKENS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HERPESVIRUS 3, GALLID; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAREK DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035432622     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/80.8.1064     Document Type: Article

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