Associations of BF2 alleles with antibody titres and production traits in commercial pure line broiler chickens

Animal Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-176

  Ewald, S J ^a   Ye, X ^b   Avendano, S ^c   McLeod, S ^c   Lamont, S J ^b   Dekkers, J C M ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Aviagen   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Chicken; Major histocompatibility complex; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BREEDING; CHICKENS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS I; LINEAR MODELS; PHENOTYPE;

GALLUS GALLUS; INFECTIOUS BURSAL DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 34047105769     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2007.01574.x     Document Type: Article

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