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Study on the polymorphism of bovine lactoferrin gene and its relationship with mastitis.
Animal biotechnology - 1 May 2004
Li Guo-Hua, Zhang Yuan, Sun Dong-Xiao, Li Ning
Abstract excerpt
Mastitis is a major cause of economic loss to the dairy industry. Lactoferrin (Lf) is known to contribute to resistance against bacterial infections. Hence, we decided to characterize the relevance between mastitis resistance and the variants of Lf gene. By using PCR-SSCP, five fragments within 5' region and all exons of bovine lactoferrin gene were amplified and identified the nucleotide diversity. For the five...
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