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Wildlife genetics and disease: allozyme evolution in the wild boar (Sus scrofa) caused by a swine fever epidemy
Genetics Selection Evolution volume 32, Article number: 303 (2000)
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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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Lang, S., Pesson, B., Klein, F. et al. Wildlife genetics and disease: allozyme evolution in the wild boar (Sus scrofa) caused by a swine fever epidemy. Genet Sel Evol 32, 303 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-32-3-303
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-32-3-303