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Beneficial genotype of swine FUT1 gene governing resistance to E. coli F18 is associated with important economic traits

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  1. Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, People’s Republic of China

    WEN-BIN BAO, LAN YE, ZHANG-YUAN Pan, JIN ZHU & SHENG-LONG WU

  2. College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009, People’s Republic of China

    GUO-QIANG ZHU

  3. Suzhou Taihu Pig Breeding Centre, Jiangsu Province, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215000, People’s Republic of China

    XUE-GEN HUANG

  4. Jiangsu Engineering Research Centre for Molecular Breeding of Pig, Changzhou, Jiangsu, 213149, People’s Republic of China

    WEN-BIN BAO, GUO-QIANG ZHU, XUE-GEN HUANG & SHENG-LONG WU

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Bao W.-B., Ye L., Pan Z.-Y., Zhu J., Zhu G.-Q., Huang X.-G. and Wu S.-L. 2011 Beneficial genotype of swine FUT1 gene governing resistance to E. coli F18 is associated with important economic traits. J. Genet. 90, 315–318

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BAO, WB., YE, L., Pan, ZY. et al. Beneficial genotype of swine FUT1 gene governing resistance to E. coli F18 is associated with important economic traits. J Genet 90, 315–318 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-011-0059-9

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