A genome-wide association study explores the genetic determinism of host resistance to Salmonella pullorum infection in chickens.

CONCLUSIONS: The results of this GWAS with a carefully organized Salmonella challenge experiment represent an important milestone in understanding the genetics of infectious disease resistance, offer a theoretical basis for breeding SP-resistant chicken lines using marker-assisted selection, and provide new information for salmonellosis research in humans and other animals.
PMID: 31533607 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Genet Sel Evol - September 17, 2019 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Li X, Nie C, Liu Y, Chen Y, Lv X, Wang L, Zhang J, Li K, Jia Y, Ban L, Ning Z, Qu L Tags: Genet Sel Evol Source Type: research