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Association analyses between the prion protein locus and reproductive and lamb weight traits in Ripollesa sheep.
Journal of animal science - 1 Mar 2007
Casellas J, Caja G, Bach R, Francino O, Piedrafita J
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to analyze the association between the haplotypes of the prion protein (PrP) locus and several reproductive and lamb weight traits in Ripollesa sheep. Prion protein genotypes were available for a total of 310 sheep (7 rams, 114 ewes, and 189 lambs), all of them belonging to the purebred Ripollesa flock of the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, for which all sheep had a known...
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