Immunity traits in pigs: substantial genetic variation and limited covariation.

Immunity traits in pigs: substantial genetic variation and limited covariation.

BACKGROUND: Increasing robustness via improvement of resistance to pathogens is a major selection objective in livestock breeding. As resistance traits are difficult or impossible to measure directly, potential indirect criteria are measures of immune traits (ITs). Our underlying hypothesis is that...

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Main Authors: Laurence Flori, Yu Gao, Denis Laloë, Gaëtan Lemonnier, Jean-Jacques Leplat, Angélique Teillaud, Anne-Marie Cossalter, Joëlle Laffitte, Philippe Pinton, Christiane de Vaureix, Marcel Bouffaud, Marie-José Mercat, François Lefèvre, Isabelle P Oswald, Jean-Pierre Bidanel, Claire Rogel-Gaillard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3146468?pdf=render

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