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Genome-wide association studies of immune, disease and production traits in indigenous chicken ecotypes

BACKGROUND: The majority of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa are indigenous ecotypes, well adapted to the local environment and raised in scavenging production systems. Although they are generally resilient to disease challenge, routine vaccination and biosecurity measures are rarely applied and infec...

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Autores principales: Psifidi, Androniki, Banos, Georgios, Matika, Oswald, Desta, Takele T., Bettridge, Judy, Hume, David A., Dessie, Tadelle, Christley, Rob, Wigley, Paul, Hanotte, Olivier, Kaiser, Pete
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27687164
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-016-0252-7