Major Histocompatibility Complex DRB1 gene: Its role in nematode resistance in Suffolk and Texel sheep breeds

Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 403-409

  Sayers, G ^a   Good, B ^b   Hanrahan, J P ^b   Ryan, M ^a   Angles, J M ^a   Sweeney, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Faecal egg count; Ovar DRB1; Parasites; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRB1 GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; LAMB; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FECES; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 23044432557     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005007778     Document Type: Article

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