A short-term divergent selection for resistance to Teladorsagia circumcincta in Romanov sheep using natural or artificial challenge

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 217-242

  Gruner, Lucas ^a   Bouix, Jacques ^a   Vu Tien Khang, Jacqueline ^a,c   Mandonnet, Nathalie ^a,d   Eychenne, Francis ^b   Cortet, Jacques ^a   Sauvé, Christine ^a   Limouzin, Claude ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INRA   (France)

^c Inra ^*  (Luxembourg)

^d Unite de Recherches Zootechniques Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

Genetic parameters; Host resistance; Sheep nematoda; Teladorsagia circumcincta

Indexed keywords

NEMATODE; PARASITE RESISTANCE; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SHEEP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; FECES; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FECES; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 1442289446     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2003060     Document Type: Article

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