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AvBD1 nucleotide polymorphisms, peptide antimicrobial activities and microbial colonisation of the broiler chicken gut.
BMC genomics - 18 Aug 2017
Cadwell Kevin, Niranji Sherko S, Armstrong Vanessa L, Mowbray Catherine A, Bailey Richard, Watson Kellie A, Hall Judith
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BACKGROUND: The importance of poultry as a global source of protein underpins the chicken genome and associated SNP data as key tools in selecting and breeding healthy robust birds with improved disease resistance. SNPs affecting host peptides involved in the innate defences tend to be rare, but three non-synonymous SNPs in the avian β-defensin (AvBD1) gene encoding the variant peptides NYH, SSY and NYY were...
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