Wildlife genetics and disease: allozyme evolution in the wild boar (Sus scrofa) caused by a swine fever epidemy

Autor: Schreiber Arnd, Klein Francois, Pesson Bernard, Lang Stéphane
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Genetics Selection Evolution, Vol 32, Iss 3, Pp 303-310 (2000)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1297-9686
0999-193X
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-32-3-303
Popis: Abstract Enzyme polymorphism at 42 loci was compared before and after a major epidemy of swine fever in wild boars from northern Vosges (France). No change was observed in the 38 monomorphic loci, but allele frequencies at the phosphoglucomutase locus PGM-2* changed significantly. Possible causes for this observation are discussed, and it appears that PGM-2 locus could be a genetic marker of resistance to this viral disease.
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