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Heritability of susceptibility to Salmonella enteritidis infection in fowls and test of the role of the chromosome carrying the NRAMP1 gene.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 1 Jan 2000
Girard-Santosuosso Odile, Lantier Frédéric, Lantier Isabelle, Bumstead Nat, Elsen Jean-Michel, Beaumont Catherine
Abstract excerpt
373 thirteen-week-old chicks issued from a commercial cross and 312 chickens from the L2 line were intravenously inoculated with 10 (6) Salmonella enteritidis and the numbers of Salmonella in the spleen, liver and genital organs were assessed 3 days later. Heritabilities of the number of Salmonella were estimated at 0.02 +/-0.04 and 0.05 +/-0.05 in the liver; at 0.29 +/-0.07 and 0.10 +/-0.06 in the spleen; and at...
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