Article
The MHC of a broiler chicken line: serology, B-G genotypes, and B-F/B-LB sequences.
Immunogenetics - 1 Mar 1999
Li L, Johnson L W, Livant E J, Ewald S J
Abstract excerpt
Although the major histocompatibility complex of chickens (encoded in the B complex) has been studied for a number of years, almost all work has focused on the White Leghorn breed. Broiler (meat-type) chickens were derived from other breeds, including Cornish and Plymouth Rock. It was our hypothe...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chickens
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary
- Exons
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Genes, MHC Class II
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Immune Sera
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Serotyping