Article
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-c...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Antibodies, Bacterial
- Bacterial Vaccines
- Breeding
- Chickens
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Genetic Variation
- Immunity, Cellular
- Immunocompetence
- Mycoplasma
- Pasteurella multocida
