Associations of PrP genotype with lamb production traits in three commercial breeds of British hill sheep

The National Scrapie Plan (NSP) was launched in Great Britain in 2001, with the aim of eventually eradicating scrapie, a small ruminant transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, from the national sheep flock. Specifically, a selective breeding programme, the Ram Genotyping Scheme, was devised enablin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: R.C. Moore, K. Boulton, S.C. Bishop
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2009-01-01
Series:Animal
Subjects:
PrP
TSE
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731108003637