Selection based on indirect genetic effects for growth, environmental enrichment and coping style affect the immune status of pigs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Reimert, Inonge ^a   Rodenburg, T Bas ^a   Ursinus, Winanda W ^a   Kemp, Bas ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; COMPLEMENT; HEMOCYANIN; KEYHOLE-LIMPET HEMOCYANIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING METHOD; CHRONIC STRESS; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWINE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PIG;

SUIDAE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HEMOCYANIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84907482565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108700     Document Type: Article

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