Quantifying selection for resistance to infectious diseases in pigs using genetic epidemiological models
The purpose of this thesis is to quantify the effect of selection for disease resistance on the epidemiology of microparasitic infection in pigs, combining quantitative genetics and epidemiology using computer simulation. Two methods of selection are investigated: continuous selection at an arbitrar...
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University of Edinburgh
1999
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654317 |