Animal genomics for animal health; proceedings.

9783805586191

Animal genomics for animal health; proceedings.

International Symposium on Animal Genomics for Animal Health (2007: Paris, France) Ed by Marie-Helene Pinard et al.

S. Karger, AG

2008

439 pages

$410.00

Hardcover

Developments in biologicals; v.132

QH432

Researchers in genetics and other biomedical sciences survey some possible veterinary applications of information and approaches resulting from the genome sequences now being established for major livestock and pet species. The 54 papers discuss such aspects as the proteomic dissection of viral pathogenesis Viral pathogenesis is the study of how biological viruses cause diseases in their target hosts, usually carried out at the cellular or molecular level. It is a specialized field of study in virology. See also

pathogen
pathogenesis

, identifying genes involved in tick infestation infestation /in·fes·ta·tion/ (-fes-ta´shun) parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites, or ticks; sometimes used to denote parasitic invasion of the organs and tissues, as by helminths. in cows, the dynamic differential regulation of innate immune transcripts during the infection of alveolar macrophages by the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV), also known as Blue-Ear Pig Disease (in Chinese, zhū láněr bìng 豬藍耳病), is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called , and using RNAi and transgenics trans·gen·ics
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
The study of or methodology used to create transgenic animals or plants. to develop viral disease resistant livestock. Chickens, water buffalo water buffalo: see buffalo.

water buffalo
or Indian buffalo

Any of three subspecies of oxlike bovid (species Bubalus bubalis). Two have been domesticated in Asia since the earliest recorded history. , and salmon are among other animals considered.

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