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    Jan 17, 2009, 01:16 PM
    Pest resistant animals
    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
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    Jan 17, 2009, 01:40 PM

    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
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