Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gibbons, R.A
• Sellwood, R
• Burrows, M
• Hunter, P.A. (Agricultural Research Council, Compton (UK). Inst. for Research on Animal Diseases)

Titel

Inheritance of resistance to neonatal E. coli diarrhoea in the pig: Examination of the genetic system

Ist Teil von

• Theoretical and applied genetics, 1977-03, Vol.51 (2), p.65-70

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

1977

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Evidence is presented that a dominant allele, S, is expressed as a receptor for K88 on the brushborder surface of the pig intestinal cell. The homozygous recessive (ss) lacks this receptor. The receptor enables K88 - positive coliforms to adhere to the gut of the piglet which they must do if they are to cause neonatal diarrhoea. The homozygous recessive is thus a disease resistant animal.A possible reason for the persistence of the dominant (susceptible) gene is given.