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Research note: resistance of chickens to an outbreak of necrotic enteritis as influenced by major histocompatibility genotype and background genome.
Poultry science - 1 Jun 1993
Siegel P B, Larsen A S, Larsen C T, Dunnington E A
Abstract excerpt
An outbreak of necrotic enteritis occurred in chickens that were B13B13 or B21B21 at the MHC in sublines of lines selected for high (HA) and low (LA) antibody response to sheep erythrocytes. Percentage mortality and hen-day egg production, although similar for both background genomes, were different for MHC genotypes. Mortality was 6% for B21B21 and 15% for B13B13 types. Although hen-day egg production for both...
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