Quantitative trait loci for resistance to trichostrongylid infection in Spanish Churra sheep

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gutiérrez Gil, Beatriz ^a   Pérez, Jorge ^a   Álvarez, Lorena ^d   Martínez Valladares, Maria ^a,b   De La Fuente, Luis Fernando ^a   Bayán, Yolanda ^a   Meana, Aranzazu ^c   Primitivo, Fermin San ^a   Rojo Vzquez, Francisco Antonio ^a,b   Arranz, Juan José ^a  

^a Universidad de Leán   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Ganadería de Montana   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC MARKER; GRAZING; HEALTH IMPACT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NEMATODE; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLIDAE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; DOMESTIC SHEEP; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHEEP DISEASE; SPAIN; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPAIN; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 77949833526     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-41-46     Document Type: Article

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