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Resistance to abomasal nematodes and individual genetic variability in reindeer.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2005
Côté Steeve D, Stien Audun, Irvine R Justin, Dallas John F, Marshall Freda, Halvorsen Odd, Langvatn Rolf, Albon Steve D
Abstract excerpt
Resistance to parasites is believed to have a widespread influence on demographic and adaptive processes. In systems where parasites impose a fitness cost on their host, heterozygotes may be selected because they are more resistant to parasites than homozygotes. Our objective was to assess the relationships between genomewide individual heterozygosity and abomasal nematode burdens in female Svalbard reindeer...
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