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Expansion of the Bactericidal/Permeability Increasing-like (BPI-like) protein locus in cattle

BACKGROUND: Cattle and other ruminants have evolved the ability to derive most of their metabolic energy requirement from otherwise indigestible plant matter through a symbiotic relationship with plant fibre degrading microbes within a specialised fermentation chamber, the rumen. The genetic changes...

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Autores principales: Wheeler, Thomas T, Hood, Kylie A, Maqbool, Nauman J, McEwan, John C, Bingle, Colin D, Zhao, Shaying
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1839098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17362520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-8-75