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Can breeders prevent pathogen adaptation when selecting for increased resistance to infectious diseases?
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 8 Nov 2022
Hulst Andries D, Bijma Piter, De Jong Mart C M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent research shows that genetic selection has high potential to reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases in livestock. However, like all interventions that target infectious diseases, genetic selection of livestock can exert selection pressure on pathogen populations. Such selection on the pathogen may lead to escape strategies and reduce the effect of selection of livestock for disease...
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