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Immunoresponsiveness in chickens: association of antibody production and the B system of the major histocompatibility complex.
Poultry science - 1 Oct 1996
Dunnington E A, Briles W E, Briles R W, Siegel P B
Abstract excerpt
Lines of White Leghorn chickens were selected for high or low antibody response to sheep erythrocytes for five generations. The base population from which the experiment started was composed of individuals all of which were heterozygous at the MHC haplotypes B13 and B21. Body weights, egg production traits, and genotypes at the B system were monitored for all individuals in each generation. By Generations 4 and 5...
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