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Detecting fecal egg count (FEC) for gastrointestinal nematodes of adult Turkish sheep with different scrapie related PRNP haplotypes.
Animal biotechnology - 1 Jun 2021
Yaman Yalçın, Şenlik Bayram, Özüiçli Mehmet, Keleş Murat, Aymaz Ramazan, Bay Veysel, Hatipoğlu Ecem, Koncagül Seyrani, Öner Yasemin, Ün Cemal
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Scrapie is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by prions and leads to neurodegeneration in the Central Nervous System (CNS) of sheep and goats. Genetic resistance/susceptibility to scrapie is well studied and it is known that the variations of 136th, 154th and 171st codons at the ovine PRNP gene have a major effect on the development of the disease. Many studies demonstrated that selection for PRNP...
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