1. Preliminary association of coat colour types and tolerance toHaemonchus contortusinfection in West African Dwarf sheep
- Author
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Adelodun O. Sanusi, A. O. Sonibare, Ikhide G. Imumorin, Michael O. Ozoje, and Sunday O. Peters
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Coat ,Veterinary medicine ,General Veterinary ,biology ,Globulin ,business.industry ,biology.animal_breed ,biology.organism_classification ,West African Dwarf sheep ,Blood proteins ,Mouflon ,parasitic diseases ,Genotype ,biology.protein ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Livestock ,business ,Haemonchus contortus - Abstract
Reduction in livestock productivity from internal parasites remains a major problem including the roundworm Haemonchus contortus. Treatment is rather expensive in most resource poor regions of the world, and the use of genetically resistant genotypes have been advocated. Our preliminary study investigated the association of coat colour types and tolerance to H. contortus infection in West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep. Twenty-four WAD sheep (12 males and 12 females) representing five coat colour types were orally dosed with 1000 H. contortus third-stage infective larvae, and data were collected over a 3-week period on initial and post-infection body weight (IBW and PIBW), packed cell volume (PCV), total serum proteins (TSP), albumin (ALB), globulin (GLB) and faecal egg counts (FEC). Coat colour was significantly associated with tolerance to H. contortus infection (p
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- 2012