A genetic study of the grading-up of the East African zebu to the Indian Sahiwal has been undertaken on records, covering about 25 years, from three livestock Improvement Centres in Kenya. It appears from this study that the indigenous East African zebu cow has only about half the genetic potenti...
The paper reviews the evidence of genetic resistance to endoparasites both within and between breeds of sheep and goats and assesses the possibilities of breeding for increased resistance. In light of this evidence, ILCA has developed a Pan-African research programme to investigate and characteri...
Baker, R.L.
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Lahlou-Kassi, A.
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Rege, J.E.O.
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Reynolds, L.
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Tekelye Bekele
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Mukasa-Mugerwa, E.
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Rey, B.
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[A review of genetic resistance to endoparasites in small ruminants and an outline of ILCA's research programme in this area]
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A review of genetic resistance to endoparasites in small ruminants and an outline of ILCA's research programme in this area
Cabello, R.
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Monneveux, P.
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Bonierbale, Merideth W.
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Khan, M.A.
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[Heritability of yield components under irrigated and drought conditions in andigenum potatoes.]
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Heritability of yield components under irrigated and drought conditions in andigenum potatoes.
Conception, lambing rate and litter size were studied on data from a flock of Horro sheep in Ethiopia from 1878 to 1997. The CATMOD and GLM procedures of SAS were used for the analysis of these traits. A sire, direct additive genetic and a repeatability animal model were employed to obtain estim...
Abegaz, S.
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Duguma, G.
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Negussie, E.
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Gelmesa, U.
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Terefe, F.
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Rege, J.E.O.
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[Factors affecting reproductive performance and estimates of genetic parameters of litter size in Horro sheep]
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Factors affecting reproductive performance and estimates of genetic parameters of litter size in Horro sheep
The host-protective immune response to infection with gastrointestinal (GI) nematodes involves a range of interacting processes that begin with recognition of the parasite's antigens and culminate in an inflammatory reaction in the intestinal mucosa. Precisely which immune effectors are responsib...
Behnke, J.M.
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Iraqi, F.A.
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Menge, D.
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Baker, R.L.
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Gibson, John P.
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Wakelin, D.
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[Chasing the genes that control resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes]
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Chasing the genes that control resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes
Since the publication of the mouse genome, attention has focused on the strains that were selected for sequencing. In this paper we report the results of experiments that characterized the response to infection with the murine gastrointestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus of eight new strai...
Behnke, J.M.
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Mugambi, J.M.M.
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Clifford, S.
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Iraqi, F.A.
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Baker, R.L.
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Gibson, John P.
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Wakelin, D.
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[Genetic variation in resistance to repeated infections with Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri, in inbred mouse strains selected for the mouse genome project]
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Genetic variation in resistance to repeated infections with Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri, in inbred mouse strains selected for the mouse genome project
Pérez Velásquez, Juan Carlos
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Ceballos, H.
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Lenis, Jorge I.
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Ortega, E.
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Morante, N
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[Heritability of agronomically relevant traits in cassava]
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Heritability of agronomically relevant traits in cassava
Jaén Sánchez, Ariel Eric
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[Evaluación del centro blanco en poblaciones segregantes de arroz (Oryza sativa L.). Tesis (M.Sc.)]
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Evaluación del centro blanco en poblaciones segregantes de arroz (Oryza sativa L.). Tesis (M.Sc.)
Bayesian segregation analysis using a Gibbs sampling approach was applied to four sets of simulated data and one set of field data to detect evidence of major genes affecting the evaluated trait. The substitution effect of a major gene and its allelic frequency were estimated for each set of data...
Pan, Y.
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Boettcher, P.J.
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Gibson, John P.
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[Bayesian segregation analysis of somatic cell scores of ontario Holstein cattle]
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Bayesian segregation analysis of somatic cell scores of ontario Holstein cattle
Nine hundred and thirty-six East African Zebu village calves in an area of high trypanosomiasis risk in south-western Ethiopia were monitored monthly with their dams from birth to 3 years of age. Mean packed red cell volume (PCV) and the frequency of detected parasitaemia were calculated for each...
Rowlands, G.J.
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Mulatu, W.
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Nagda, S.M.
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Dolan, R.B.
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D'Ieteren, G.D.M.
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[Genetic variation in packed red cell volume and frequency of parasitaemia in East African Zebu cattle exposed to drug-resistant trypanosomes]
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Genetic variation in packed red cell volume and frequency of parasitaemia in East African Zebu cattle exposed to drug-resistant trypanosomes