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evaluation/analysis methods (human senses) Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems Sheep and wool, general/other Sheep, live animal Shellfish Soft red wheat Soft white wheat (includes club, western) Soil Soil and land, general Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310) Solar radiation Soybean Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods Strawberry Striped bass Structures, facilities, and equipment, general/other Sugar beet Sugar cane Sugar crops, general/other Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum- Sunflower Sweet potato Sweet sorghum Sweetcorn Swine, general/other Swine, live animal Table grapes The family and its members The farm as an enterprise Tilapia Tomato Trees, forests, and forest products, general Trefoil Tropical forests Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other Trout Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue, Turkey, live animal Upland cotton Vegetables, general/other Viroids, mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc. Viruses Walnut Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems, Water resources Watersheds Watersheds and river basins, general Weather Weeds Wetland and riparian systems Wheat, other Wild animals Wild birds Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other Wildlife habitats Wine grapes Winter annual grasses (includes annual ryegrass) Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover) Wood and wood products Wool fiber Swine, live animal A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (Snp) Marker Set for Dna-Based Traceback in North American Beef and Dairy Cattle Advanced Vaccines for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Classical Swine Fever Advanced Veterinary Vaccines and Diagnostics Aircraft Disinsection Research Anaerobic Microbiological Processes in Animal Manure Management Animal Health Consortium Applied Genomic Analysis of Leptospira Assessment of the Role of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (Fmdv) Proteins in Viral Pathogenesis Association of Imprinted Genes with Reproductive Efficiency in Swine Biological Studies of Putative Nonstructural Protein 2 in Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Biotherapeutics Development Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Swine Bovine Microrna Transcriptome Analyses: Discovery, Tissue-Specific Expression Profile, and Target Gene Prediction Characterization of Local Isolates of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses and Development of Vector Based Vaccines Characterization of Swine Influenza Virus Isolates Characterizing and Managing Animal Stress/well-Being in Livestock Production Chemical Characterization Particulates and Gaseous Emissions from Impacted and Non-Impacted Areas Associated with Swine Feeding Operations Classical Swine Fever Virus: Role of the 3'Utr in Infectivity of Swine Conservation of Manure Nutrients and Odorant Reduction in Swine and Cattle Confinement Facilities Control and Protection Tools for Integrated Pest Management of Mosquitoes and Filth Flies Countermeasures to Prevent the Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (Prdc) Critical Evaluation of Commercially Available Enzymes and Processing on Nutrient Digestibility of Swine Diets Containing Ddgs Definition of the Excito-Repellency of the Insecticide Duet and Its Subcomponents Against Mosquitoes Detection and Quantification of Salmonella in Livestock Samples Detection and Safe Management of Microorganisms in Swine Waste (Prestage Farms of Ms) Developing Predictive Tools for Prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Development and Evaluation of Digital Thermometer/relative Humidity Recording Devices with Remote Downloading Capabilities Development of a Large Number of Snp Markers to Enhance Genetic Selection and Identify Genes Affecting Production and Health Traits in Swine Development of An Integrated Risk Model for Foodborne Zoonotic Parasites in Swine Development of An Intervention That Targets Campylobacter¿s Amino Acid Fermentation Niche Development of Fmdv Biotherapeutics Targeting Natural Killer (Nk) Cells of Cattle and Swine Development of Methodology for Application to Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostics, Surveillance, Detection, Control and Eradication Development of Methods for Rapid Control of Classical Swine Fever (Csf) Development of New Technologies and Methods to Enhance the Utilization and Long-Term Storage of Poultry, Swine and Fish Germplasm Development of Sustained Release Devices for Biting Insect Control Dioxins and Other Environmental Contaminants in Food Does Genetic Selection for Body Weight in Chickens Alter the Brain's Ability to Regulate Feed Intake and Energy Balance? Effects of Diet Formulation on Zoonotic Pathogens in Swine Feces and Manure Elucidation of Important Host and Pathogen Interactions to Reduce Pre-Harvest Food Safety Risks Emerging Animal Diseases That Exist Offshore Engineering Bacteriophage Endolysins: Antimicrobials for Mastitis Pathogens That Are Refractory to Resistance Development Enhancing Animal Well-Being, Immunocompetence, and Performance in Swine and Beef Cattle Evaluation of Crude Glycerol in Swine Evaluation of Cytokines Targeting Natural Killer Cells of Cattle and Swine As Potential Biotherapeutics for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Evaluation of Genetically Engineered Cattle and Refining Techniques for Producing Them Evaluation of Hormones and Ag Chemicals in Animal Waste Evaluation of Information Needs for Swine Research Evaluation of Operator Safe Diagnostic Reagents for Rift Valley Fever Virus Evaluation of Repellents and Control Compounds in Mosquitoes, Sand Flies, and Ticks Infected with Militarily Important Human Pathogens Evaluation of Repellents, Inhibitors, Barrier Treatments, and Ulv Insecticides, & Other New Products in a Southern California Desert Habitat Evaluation of Repellents, Inhibitors, Barrier Treatments, and Ulv Insecticides, and Other New Products in Sub-Saharan Africa Expanding the Immune Toolkit for Assessing Pig Health and Improving Swine Disease and Vaccine Studies Expanding the Immune Toolkit for Assessing Pig Health and Improving Swine Disease and Vaccine Studies Expanding the Immune Toolkit for Assessing Pig Health and Improving Swine Disease and Vaccine Studies Fertility of Cryopreserved Swine Germplasm Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (Fmdv) Countermeasures Discovery Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (Fmdv) Host-Pathogen Interactions Foreign Animal Disease Vaccines and Diagnostics Foreign Animal Diseases, Immune Protection and Diagnostics Functional Genomics of Enhanced Embryo, Fetal, and Neonatal Development and Survival in Swine Gene Expression in Lymph Nodes of Prrsv-Infected Pigs Genetic and Antigenic Characterization of North American H1 Swine Influenza Viruses Genetic and Biological Determinants of Respiratory Disease Susceptibility Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Improve Efficiency of Swine Production and Product Quality Genetic and Immune Strategies to Control Mucosal Pathogens of Swine Genomic and Immunological Analysis of Spirochete Diseases Genomic Regulation of Seasonal Infertility in Swine Handling and Transport Stress Interactions with Pathogen Biology in Swine and Cattle Heart Rate Variability: Unraveling the Sympatho-Vagal Mechanisms of Stress Responses and Well-Being Status in Pigs Identification of Quantitative Trait Nucleotides (Qtn) for Pork Tenderness Identification of Type I Interferon Antagonists of Prrsv Viral Structural Proteins Impact of Diet and Gut Microbial Ecology on Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in Farm Animals Impact of Hog and Turkey Farm Production Practices on Molecular Epidemiology of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Emerging Foodborne Pathogens Impacts of Water Sprinkler Systems on Air Quality at Cattle Feedlots Implementation of a Prrsv Strain Database Implementation of a Prrsv Strain Database Implementation of a Prrsv Strain Database Implementation of a Prrsv Strain Database Implementation of a Prrsv Strain Database Implementation of a Prrsv Strain Database Improvement of Stem Cell and Nuclear Cloning Technologies in Ungulates In Vitro Estimation and in Vivo Determination of Metabolizable Energy in Corn Co-Products Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Integrated Biosystematics and Taxonomy for Parasites among Ungulates and Other Vertebrates Integration of Functional Genomics and Quantative Genetics to Improve Feed Efficiency in Pigs Interventions to Reduce Epizootic Pathogenic Bacteria in Swine and Cattle Investigation of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Is Humoral Immunity Defective in Pcv-2 Infected Piglets? Joint Analysis of a Qtl Region on Pig Chromosome 2 Affecting Pork Tenderness Measuring Immune Responses to Vaccination with Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (Fmdv) in Cattle Measuring Mucosal Derived Immunity in Swine with Different Vitamin a Status to Yield Biomarkers of Human Nutrient/disease Interactions Mechanisms of Early Immune Enhancement Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease Metabolic Variables Affecting the Efficacy, Safety, and Fate of Agricultural Chemicals Modeling and Prediction of Attractants and Inhibitors Modulating Weaning and Transport Stressors with Yeast Products in Piglets Molecular Analysis of Salmonella Virulence, Antibiotic Resistance, and Host Response Molecular Biology and Genomics of Foodborne Pathogens Molecular Identification and Phylogenetic Analyses of Unique Microorganisms from Swine Feces and Manure Storage Pits Molecular Pathogenesis and Immune Response of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus and Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome Virus Molecular Pathogenesis of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in Cattle Molecular Systematics and Comparative Population Genetics of Parasitic Organisms That Threaten Food Safety and Security National Animal Germplasm Program (Nagp) National Animal Health Monitoring Survey 2006, Toxoplasma Gondii and Trichinella Spiralis Novel Recombinant Adenovirus Vaccine and Antiviral Vectors to Control Fmdv Nri Program Project on "integrated Control and Elimination of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (Prrsv) in the U.S." Physiological Approaches to Increase the Efficiency of Pork Production Through Improved Nutritional and Reproductive Competence Porcine and Bovine Genome Annotation and Qtl Dissection Preservation of Caprine Germplasm Prevention and Control of Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia Coli in Livestock Prevention of Losses from Colibacillosis and O157:h7 and Other Shiga Toxin-Producing E. Coli (Stec) in Cattle and Swine Prevention of Zoonotic Pathogen Transmission from Animal Manure to Human Food Program for Prevention of Animal Infectious Diseases and Advanced Technologies for Vaccines and Diagnostics Protozoan Parasites Affecting Food Animals, Food Safety, and Public Health Prrs Host Genetics Consortium: a Proposal to Develop a Consortium to Study the Role of Host Genetics and Resistance to Prrs Quantifying Connections Between Swine Operations and Hormones in the Environment Reduction of Nutrient Losses and Aerial Emissions from Livestock Production Facilities Remotely Sensed Satellite Climate & Environmental Data to Detect Elevated Populations of Mosquito Vectors of Emerging Arboviruses in the Us Research and Development of Methodology for Testing Chemical Inactivation of High Consequence Viral Disease Agents Research to Improve Production Efficiency/meat Quality, Reduce Food Safety Pathogens, & Minimize Impact of Animal Agriculture on Environment Resource Development Facilitating Bovine Genome Sequence Use to Improve Cattle Production Efficiency, Product Quality & Environmental Impact Role of Cellular Genes in Resistance to Viral Infection Role of Glycosylation of Csfv Envelope Proteins on Virus Virulence, Antigenicity and Immunogenicity Safe Management and Utilization of Waste from Animal Production Safeguarding Well-Being of Food Producing Animals Sequencing, Cloning and Characterization of a 2007 Vietnam Prrsv Isolate Strategies to Optimize Carcass Yield and Meat Quality of Red Meat Animals Study of Influenza a Viruses Support of the Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation Animal Health Care Division (Ahcd) Surveillance and Ecology of Mosquito, Biting and Filth Breeding Insects Susceptibility of Swine to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Swine Genome Sequencing Project (Sgsp) Swine Viral Diseases Pathogenesis and Immunology T. Spiralis Detection Using Muscle Larvae E/s Antigens in An Elisa Testing of Fecal Samples/cryptosporidium by Pcr The Role of Insect Vector Transmission in the Pathogenesis of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus The Role of Kisspeptin in Regulating Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in the Pig The Role of Prrsv Non-Structural Proteins 1 and 2 in Host Immunity Towards a Vaccine to Prevent Toxoplasmosis Triple Action Chimera: Eradication of Nasal S. 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