Lambs with Scrapie Susceptible Genotypes Have Higher Postnatal Survival

BACKGROUND: Prion protein (PrP) alleles associated with scrapie susceptibility persist in many sheep populations even with high frequencies despite centuries of selection against them. This suggests that scrapie susceptibility alleles have a pleiotropic effect or are associated with fitness or other...

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Autores principales: Sawalha, Rami M., Brotherstone, Susan, Conington, Joanne, Villanueva, Beatriz
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2077931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18043743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001236

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2077931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18043743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001236

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