Chicken Trait Details: Fecal egg count

QTLdb Trait Hierarchy

Trait Class:	Health
Trait Type:	Disease Susceptibility
Trait Name:	Fecal egg count
Trait ID:	2408
Abbreviation:	FEC
Custom Name:	n/a
Related / Reported trait: (Figures in parenthesis are the number of data associated with)	Fecal egg count (38)
Description:	Number of parasitic flatworm eggs in feces
Measurement:	McMaster
Scale/Unit:	number/g
Comments:	n/a

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Links to Formal Trait Ontology

Vertebrate Trait Ontology:	[VT:0010437] Response to parasitic infection trait
Product Trait Ontology:	(n/a)
Clinical Measurement Ontology:	[CMO:0002544] Fecal parasite egg count

The Vertebrate Trait (VT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to the morphology, physiology, or development of vertebrate organisms
The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO) is designed to be used to standardize morphological and physiological measurement records generated from clinical and model organism research and health programs.
Product Trait (PT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to products produced by or obtained from the body of an agricultural animal or bird maintained for use and profit.

REFERENCE
Park CA, Bello SM, Smith CL, Hu ZL, Munzenmaier DH, Nigam R, Smith JR, Shimoyama M, Eppig JT, Reecy JM. (2013) The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013, 4(1):13.