Changes in disease gene frequency over time with differential genotypic fitness and various control strategies

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2629-2635

  Thompson, P N ^a   Heesterbeek, J A P ^b   Van Arendonk, J A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fitness; Genetic defect; Genotyping; Lethal recessive mutation; Modeling; Selective advantage of heterozygote

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; LETHAL GENE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECESSIVE GENE; TIME;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33749399929     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2005-774     Document Type: Article

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