Genetic resistance to gastrointestinal parasites in sheep

MA Poli, MV Donzelli, ME Caffaro, MA Raschia… - CABI …, 2023 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection is the most common disease affecting sheep
production systems throughout the world, causing significant productive and economic …

Characterisation of major histocompatibility complex class IIa haplotypes in an island sheep population

KL Dicks, JM Pemberton, KT Ballingall - Immunogenetics, 2019 - Springer
The ovine MHC class IIa is known to consist of six to eight loci located in close proximity on
chromosome 20, forming haplotypes that are typically inherited without recombination. Here …

Association of MHC class II haplotypes with reduced faecal nematode egg count and IgA activity in British Texel sheep

AOA Ali, L Murphy, A Stear, K Fairlie‐Clarke… - Parasite …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nematode infection is one of the principal diseases suffered by sheep and the class II region
of the MHC has been repeatedly associated with differences in susceptibility and resistance …

Structural and functional diversity arising from intra- and inter-haplotype combinations of duplicated DQA and B loci within the ovine MHC

KT Ballingall, I Lantier, H Todd, F Lantier, M Rocchi - Immunogenetics, 2018 - Springer
In sheep, the A and B loci encoding the α and β chains of the classical class II MHC
molecules are DRA and DRB and DQA and DQB. Previous analyses described the …

Identification of the amino acids in the Major Histocompatibility Complex class II region of Scottish Blackface sheep that are associated with resistance to nematode …

A Stear, AOA Ali, GN Brujeni, J Buitkamp… - International journal for …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Lambs with the Major Histocompatibility Complex DRB1* 1101 allele have been
shown to produce fewer nematode eggs following natural and deliberate infection. These …

Allelic nomenclature for the duplicated MHC class II DQ genes in sheep

KT Ballingall, K Dicks, P Kyriazopoulou… - Immunogenetics, 2019 - Springer
The principal MHC class II molecules involved in the presentation of peptides to the antigen
specific receptors on CD4+ T cells genes in sheep are derived from DR and DQ genes …

Regiones genómicas, genes y polimorfismos de un solo nucleótido en la resistencia a nematodos gastrointestinales en ovinos. Revisión

M Villegas-Castañeda… - Revista …, 2024 - cienciaspecuarias.inifap.gob.mx
Existen diversos factores que pueden modificar la productividad en los hatos ovinos, uno de
ellos es la parasitosis gastrointestinal (GI) por nematodos, la cual puede generar pérdida de …

Population-wide genetic analysis of Ovar-DQA1 and DQA2 loci across sheep breeds in India revealed their evolutionary importance and fitness of sheep in a tropical …

GR Gowane, P Sharma, R Kumar, SS Misra… - Animal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Genetic variability at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is important in any species
due to significant role played by MHC for antigen presentation. DQA locus has not been …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic regions, genes, and single nucleotide polymorphisms in resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep.

M Villegas-Castañeda… - Revista …, 2024 - cienciaspecuarias.inifap.gob.mx
Several factors can modify productivity in sheep flocks; one of them is gastrointestinal (GI)
parasitosis by nematodes, which can cause weight loss, growth retardation, and, in extreme …

[PDF][PDF] 陕北白绒山羊MHC-DQB2基因外显子2多态性与球虫易感性的相关分析

宋晓越, 史雷, 刘锦旺, 朱海鲸, 李陇平… - 农业生物技术 …, 2019 - journal05.magtech.org.cn
陕北白绒山羊MHC-DQB2基因外显子2多态性与球虫易感性的相关分析Association Between
Polymorphism of MHC-DQ Page 1 基金项目:陕西省教育厅专项科研计划项目(No. 19JK1004),陕西 …