Expanding possibilities for intervention against small ruminant lentiviruses through genetic marker-assisted selective breeding

Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1466-1499

  White, Stephen N ^a,b   Knowles, Donald P ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Goats; Marker assisted selection; Sheep; Small ruminant lentivirus; Susceptibility; TMEM154

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CAPRINE ARTHRITIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GOAT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LENTIVIRINAE; NONHUMAN; OVINE PROGRESSIVE PNEUMONIA VIRUS; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VISNA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETIC MARKERS; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; LENTIVIRUS INFECTIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

CAPRA HIRCUS; CAPRINE ARTHRITIS-ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; OVINE LENTIVIRUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; SMALL RUMINANT LENTIVIRUS; VISNA/MAEDI VIRUS;

EID: 84879155066     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v5061466     Document Type: Review

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