Session 08 - GM2

• First results on modelling level of infection to detect a polygenic effect associated to susceptibility to scrapie in a Romanov flock (cdiaz@inia.es)
• Impact of selection environment on the evolution of environmental sensitivity (Liesbeth.vanderWaaij@wur.nl)
• New breeding tools for improving mastitis resistance in European dairy cattle (johanna.vilkki@mtt.fi)
• Assessment of genetic change for clinical mastitis in Norwegian Dairy Cattle with a multivariate threshold model (bjorg.heringstad@iha.nlh.no)
• QTL for natural antibodies in two populations of laying hens (Maria.Siwek@wur.nl)
• The genetics of indicators for host resistance to gastrointestinal parasites in Merino sheep (g.pollott@imperial.ac.uk)
• Relationships between indicator traits and parasitic nematode infection in sheep (gail.davies@bbsrc.ac.uk)
• Investigating genotype x environment interactions for indicators of host resistance to gastrointestinal parasites in Merino sheep (g.pollott@imperial.ac.uk)
• Opportunities for breeding for disease resistance in British sheep (gert_nieuwhof@mlc.org.uk)
• Resistance parameters to gastrointestinal parasitosis in Zerasca breed: a Tuscany indigenous line (jgoracci@vet.unipi.it)
• Breeding for scrapie resistance in France (palhiere@germinal.toulouse.inra.fr)
• PRNP polymorphisms at codons 136, 154 and 171 in ten sheep breeds of Greece (Gesine.Luehken@agrar.uni-giessen.de)
• Estimation of risk factors using genotype probabilities a scrapie case (vitezica@germinal.toulouse.inra.fr)
• Prion protein gene polymorphisms in purebred sheep breeds of Nova Scotia (hfarid@nsac.ns.ca)
• Genetic correlation between test-day electrical conductivity of milk and clinical mastitis (Elise.Norberg@agrsci.dk)
• Trajectories and variance component estimation for economically important disease categories (ktoelle@tierzucht.uni-kiel.de)
• Genetic parameters for claw disorders in Dutch dairy cattle and some relationships with conformation traits (Liesbeth.vanderWaaij@wur.nl)
• A screening program for subaortic and pulmonic stenosis in the italian boxer dog (lucia.menegazzo@unipd.it)