Resistance to abomasal nematodes and individual genetic variability in reindeer

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4159-4168

  Côté, Steeve D ^a,e   Stien, Audun ^a,f   Irvine, R Justin ^a   Dallas, John F ^b   Marshall, Freda ^b   Halvorsen, Odd ^c   Langvatn, Rolf ^d   Albon, Steve D ^a,g  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^g SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Marshallagia marshalli; Ostertagia gruehneri; Rangifer tarandus; Reindeer; Trichostrongyle nematodes

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; MARSHALLAGIA MARSHALLI; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA GRUEHNERI; RANGIFER TARANDUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLE; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REINDEER; RUMINANT STOMACH; STATISTICAL MODEL; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ABOMASUM; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; REINDEER; SVALBARD; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646190130     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02733.x     Document Type: Article

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