Selection for scrapie resistance and simultaneous restriction of inbreeding in the rare sheep breed "Mergellander"

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-171

  Windig, Jack J ^a   Meuleman, Hanneke ^a   Kaal, Lucia ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Control programme; Inbreeding; Rare breeds; Scrapie; Selective breeding; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; MALE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; MALE; SCRAPIE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33846127755     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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