Detection of quantitative trait loci for internal parasite resistance in sheep. I. Linkage analysis in a RomneyMerino sheep backcross population

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1275-1282

  Dominik, S ^a   Hunt, P W ^a   McNally, J ^a   Murrell, A ^a   Hall, A ^a   Purvis, I W ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

eosinophils; erythrocytes; quantitative trait loci; sheep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 6; ENDOPARASITE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAEMONCHOSIS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HEMATOCRIT; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SECONDARY INFECTION; SHEEP; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; FECES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HAEMONCHUS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SHEEP DISEASE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALIA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; OVIS ARIES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; EOSINOPHILS; FECES; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 77957378090     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201000020X     Document Type: Article

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