Hello, my name is Dawn and I am a mature student studying for access to university. I have spent 2 days researching Selective breeding for my assignment for biology, and all I an in need of, is an example of either a disease or pest resistant animal (NOT plant), if anyone has the answer or link to assist I would be very grateful!1
Thanking you in advance
Dawn

I'm sure there must be hundreds of examples for livestock.

For example a Google search for "sheep selective breeding disease resistance" brings up many interesting results, some of which are papers, such as:

Breeding for disease resistance in Merino sheep in Australia.
Raadsma HW, Gray GD, Woolaston RR.

Variation in resistance to haemonchosis: selection of female sheep resistant to Haemonchus contortus.
V. Hooda, C.L. Yadav, S.S. Chaudhri and B.S. Rajpurohit

And several others, just on the first page!

I'm sure with a little more time spent on Google you could find plenty of information for your assignment. Pest resistance might be a little harder, but I'm sure plenty of info is out there for that too.

You might also want to try Google scholar, google's search engine for peer reviewed papers:

sheep selective breeding disease resistance - Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=sheep%20selective%20breeding%20disease%20resista nce&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws)