The long view: A bright past, a brighter future? Forty years of chicken immunology pre- and post-genome

Avian Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 511-518

  Kaiser, Pete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; GENOME; GENOMICS; IMMUNITY; POULTRY DISEASES;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84871268350     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2012.735359     Document Type: Review

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