A single nucleotide polymorphism in the heat shock protein 70 constitutive gene for selecting heat-tolerant organisms Universiteit Gent
The present invention relates to the field of selecting heat-resistant, and hence disease-resistant individual organisms out of a pool of organisms. More in particular, the present invention discloses a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the heat shock protein 70 constitutive (HSC70) gene which induces heat-tolerance in an organism and which can thus be used as a genetic marker to select for a disease-resistant organisms.