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Spleen Size Predicts Resistance of Rainbow Trout to Flavobacterium psychrophilum Challenge
1 Mar 2008
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Selective breeding of animals for increased innate resistance offers an attractive strategy to control disease in agriculture. However, this approach is limited by an incomplete knowledge of the heritability, duration, and mechanism(s) of resistance, as well as the impact of selection on the immune response to unrelated pathogens. Herein, as part of a rainbow trout broodstock improvement program, we evaluated...
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