Lambs with scrapie susceptible genotypes have higher postnatal survival

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Sawalha, Rami M ^a   Brotherstone, Susan ^b   Conington, Joanne ^a   Villanueva, Beatriz ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LAMB; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLEIOTROPY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PRION; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

OVIS ARIES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

EID: 43349108350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001236     Document Type: Article

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