Low frequency of the Mx allele for viral resistance predates recent intensive selection in domestic chickens

Immunogenetics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 687-691

  Balkissoon, Devanand ^a,c   Staines, Karen ^a   McCauley, John ^b   Wood, James ^c   Young, John ^a   Kaufman, Jim ^a   Butter, Colin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian Influenza; Inbred strains; Innate immunity; Interferon; Mx; Selection

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MYXOVIRUS RESISTANCE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREED; CHICKEN; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREEDING; CHICKENS; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 34547441265     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-007-0235-5     Document Type: Article

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