Selection of pigs for improved coping with health and environmental challenges: Breeding for resistance or tolerance?

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Guy, Sarita Z Y ^a   Thomson, Peter C ^a   Hermesch, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Host defence strategies; Pig breeding; Reaction norm; Resistance; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 84876072171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00281     Document Type: Review

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