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Estimates of quantitative genetic parameters of immunological traits in the chicken.
Poultry science - 1 Oct 1991
Cheng S, Rothschild M F, Lamont S J
Abstract excerpt
Three in vivo assays were used to measure the immunocompetence of chickens in two generations of a selection experiment. The obtained data were used to estimate the variance components for sire and dam for antibody production to Pasteurella multocida and Mycoplasma gallisepticum vaccines, for T-cell-mediated immunity evaluated by a phytohemagglutinin wing web assay, and for clearance of foreign particles from the...
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