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Breeding for Genetic Resistance to Disease: Specific or General?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

J. S. Gavora and
J. L. Spencer
J. S. Gavora
Affiliation:
Animal Research Institute, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. K1A 0C6
J. L. Spencer
Affiliation:
Animal Pathology Division, Health of Animals Branch Animal Diseases Research Institute (E) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. K2H 8P9
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , August 1978, pp. 137 - 148
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Animal Research Institute, Contribution No. 732.

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