Quantifying diversity losses due to selection for scrapie resistance in three endangered Spanish sheep breeds using microsatellite information

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 172-178

  Alvarez I ^a   Gutierrez J P ^b   Royo, L J ^a   Fernandez I ^a   Goyache, F ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allelic richness; Conservation programme; Genetic diversity; Molecular coancestry; PrP; Scrapie resistance

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPAIN;

OVIS ARIES; RUBIA;

EID: 68549112703     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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