Breeding with resistant rams leads to rapid control of classical scrapie in affected sheep flocks

Susceptibility to scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep, is modulated by the genetic make-up of the sheep. Scrapie control policies, based on selecting animals of resistant genotype for breeding, have recently been adopted by the Netherlands and other European countries. Here w...

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Autores principales: Nodelijk, Gonnie, van Roermund, Herman JW, van Keulen, Lucien JM, Engel, Bas, Vellema, Piet, Hagenaars, Thomas J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21314971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9716-42-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21314971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9716-42-5

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