Farm animal populations harbour rich collections of mutations with phenotypic effects that
have been purposefully enriched by breeding. Most of these mutations do not have …

The resolution of genes that determine resistance to disease is described using chicken
lines maintained at the Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory (ADOL). This description …

Few studies have yet addressed the functional aspects of MHC molecules in fish. To lay the
foundation for this, we evaluated the association between disease resistance and MHC …

Marek's disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens that, in the absence of
control measures, is capable of causing devastating losses in commercial poultry flocks. MD …

Infectious pancreatic necrosis IPN) is a wellknown acute viral disease of salmonid species.
We have identified quantitative trait loci QTLs) associated with resistance to this disease in …

A large intercross between the domestic White Leghorn chicken and the wild ancestor, the
red junglefowl, has been used in a Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) study of growth and egg …

Genomic selection (GS) is the use of statistical methods to estimate the genetic merit of a
genotyped animal based on prediction equations derived from large ancestral populations …

Highly polymorphic major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules are at the heart of
adaptive immune responses, playing crucial roles in many kinds of disease and in …

An F2 chicken population was established from a cross of a broiler sire-line and an egg
laying (White Leghorn) line. There were two males and two females from both lines in the …

A resource population was established by crossing one modern broiler sire from a
commercial broiler breeder male line with dams from two unrelated highly inbred lines; F1 …