Article
Genomic approaches to the improvement of disease resistance in farm animals.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) - 1 Apr 1998
Soller M, Andersson L
Abstract excerpt
As a result of the difficulties in improving disease resistance in farm animals by traditional phenotype selection, the achievement of such improvement is one of the most important applications of genome research. The major hurdle to this important goal is the collection of informative disease records to enable the segregation of disease resistance loci (DRL) to be traced in pedigrees. This paper reviews the...
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