Evidence for widespread epistatic interactions influencing Marek's disease virus viremia levels in chicken

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 313-318

  Cheng, H H ^a   Zhang, Y ^b   Muir, W M ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; MARKER ASSISTED BREEDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIREMIA; VIRUS SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; MALE; MARDIVIRUS; MAREK DISEASE; VIREMIA;

AVES; GALLID HERPESVIRUS 2; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 34547616453     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103193     Document Type: Article

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