Immunogenetic Studies in Japanese Quail

Pathological studies of Marek's disease in Japanese quail.

Pathological studies of Japanese quail, which were inoculated intraperitoneally with JM strain of Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDHV) at one day of age or infected by contact with inoculated-quails, were described. A group of quails accidentally infected with Marek's disease (MD) and other un infected normal quails were also included in the present experiments. The quails were examined for vario...

Immunogenetic Studies of Species

NE of the most specific means of analyzing relationships among spe0 cies is the assay of the similarity of their proteins by precipitin reactions. Such a method was first extensively used by NUTTALL (1904), and following his work, many investigators have used immunological technics in comparable studies. Usually the criterion for distinguishing species by the precipitin test has been of a quant...

The Japanese Quail

Inbreeding depression in Japanese quail.

usefulness of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) as an expenT z n t a l animal was first pointed out about eight years ago (WILSON, ABBOTT and ABPLANALP 1959, 1961; PADGETT and IVEY 1959). These birds have steadily gained in popularity since then, but few quantitative genetic studies have been reported to date. The present investigation was designed to assess the response of Japanese q...

The Use of Sesame Meal in Diets of Japanese Quail

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (SM) on performance and carcass characteristics of Japanese quail. One hundred sixty day-old Japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. The treatments consisted of SM0, SM50, SM100 and SM150. The diet for SM0 treatment had no SM (control), while those ...