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Fell ponies grazing in Ravenstonedale, Cumbria provide an iconic image.
Fell ponies have played a pivotal role as working animals in the agricultural and industrial development of northern England, and today are valued as versatile family ponies around the UK and also overseas. However, their survival has been threatened in recent years by a fatal recessive disease that causes immune deficiency and progressive anemia. Using an equine SNP array followed by resequencing of the critical interval, Fox-Clipsham et al. mapped the defect and enabled the development of a diagnostic test for carriers and affected foals.
Image Credit: Laura Fox-Clipsham (Animal Health Trust)
Citation: (2011) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 7(7) July 2011. PLoS Genet 7(7): ev07.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v07.i07
Published: July 28, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Fox-Clipsham . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Fell ponies have played a pivotal role as working animals in the agricultural and industrial development of northern England, and today are valued as versatile family ponies around the UK and also overseas. However, their survival has been threatened in recent years by a fatal recessive disease that causes immune deficiency and progressive anemia. Using an equine SNP array followed by resequencing of the critical interval, Fox-Clipsham et al. mapped the defect and enabled the development of a diagnostic test for carriers and affected foals.
Image Credit: Laura Fox-Clipsham (Animal Health Trust)