Evidence for biogeographic patterning of mitochondrial DNA sequences in Eastern horse populations.

abstract：:The stearoyl-CoA desaturase (delta-9-desaturase) gene encodes a key enzyme in the cellular biosynthesis of monounsaturated fatty acids. In our initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) of Chinese Holstein cows, 19 SNPs fell in a 1.8-Mb region (20.3-22.1 Mb) on chromosome 26 underlying the SCD gene and were highly s...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Li C,Sun D,Zhang S,Liu L,Alim MA,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drip loss, one of the most important meat quality traits, is characterized by low heritability. To date, the genetic factors affecting the drip loss trait have not been clearly elucidated. The objective of this study was to identify critical candidate genes affecting drip loss. First, we generated a Pietrain × Duroc ×...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Li B,Liu K,Weng Q,Li P,Wei W,Li Q,Chen J,Huang R,Wu W,Liu H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies specific for equine T lymphocyte subpopulations were produced and procedures for the continuous culture of equine lymphocytes were developed. These reagents and procedures were used to analyse the appearance, maturation and functions of T lymphocytes in normal horses and in T lymphocyte deficient...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Perryman LE,Wyatt CR,Magnuson NS,Mason PH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic relatedness of 24 animals belonging to seven Indian cattle breeds was studied using high throughput genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) markers. GBS produced 93.6 million reads with an average of about 3.9 million reads per animal. A total of 107 488 SNPs were identified in these individuals. When only one SNP per ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Malik AA,Sharma R,Ahlawat S,Deb R,Negi MS,Tripathi SB

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KIT mutations have been detected in different cancer subtypes, including melanoma. The gene also has been extensively studied in farm animals for its prominent role in coat color. The present work aimed at detecting KIT variants in a porcine model of cutaneous melanoma, the melanoblastoma-bearing Libechov Minipig (MeL...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Fernández-Rodríguez A,Estellé J,Blin A,Muñoz M,Créchet F,Demenais F,Vincent-Naulleau S,Bourneuf E

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate whole genome sequence assembly can benefit from a priori knowledge of variability in the target genome, with researchers often selecting highly inbred individuals for sequencing. However, for most species highly inbred research lines are lacking, requiring the use of an outbred individual(s). Here we examin...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Chaves LD,Harry DE,Reed KM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) is a genetic leg defect in broilers with a lesion of avascular, non-calcified cartilage below the growth plate of the proximal tibiatarsus. This disease is considered to result from the inability of chondrocytes to undergo terminal differentiation. Thyroid hormones are required for chondro...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Shen S,Berry W,Jaques S,Pillai S,Zhu J

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit fur characteristics are primarily genetically determined traits. We used Illumina high-throughput sequencing technology to assess gene expression in the skin tissues of rabbits derived from a cross between Wanxi Angora rabbits and Rex rabbits, which exhibit differential characteristics of short and long wool re...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Zhao B,Chen Y,Hao Y,Yang N,Wang M,Mei M,Wang J,Qiu X,Wu X

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal fat content is an economically important trait in commercially bred chickens. Although many quantitative trait loci (QTL) related to fat deposition have been detected, the resolution for these regions is low and functional variants are still unknown. The current study was conducted aiming at increasing resol...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Moreira GC,Godoy TF,Boschiero C,Gheyas A,Gasparin G,Andrade SC,Paduan M,Montenegro H,Burt DW,Ledur MC,Coutinho LL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptorchidism is the most common disorder of sex development in dogs and testosterone plays a crucial role in the inguinal phase of the testes descending into the scrotum. The molecular background of impaired testosterone synthesis in the testes of cryptorchid dogs is poorly elucidated. In this study, we analyzed the...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Krzeminska P,Stachowiak M,Skrzypski M,Nowak T,Maslak A,Switonski M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary Long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase (ACSL) catalyses the formation of long-chain acyl-CoA from fatty acid, ATP and CoA, activating fatty acids for subsequent reactions. Long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase thus plays an essential role in both lipid biosynthesis and fatty acid degradation. The ACSL4 gene was evaluated as ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Mercadé A,Estellé J,Pérez-Enciso M,Varona L,Silió L,Noguera JL,Sánchez A,Folch JM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic selection is becoming a standard tool in livestock breeding programs, particularly for traits that are hard to measure. Accuracy of genomic selection can be improved by increasing the quantity and quality of data and potentially by improving analytical methods. Adding genotypes and phenotypes from additional b...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Farah MM,Swan AA,Fortes MR,Fonseca R,Moore SS,Kelly MJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is a mammalian developmental process that uses epigenetic mechanisms to induce monoallelic and parental-specific expression of particular autosomal genes. A crucial epigenetic event consists of DNA methylation of CpG-islands, which become differentially methylated regions (DMRs) on the maternal and ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Colosimo A,Di Rocco G,Curini V,Russo V,Capacchietti G,Berardinelli P,Mattioli M,Barboni B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An MspI polymorphism was identified in intron 13 of the equine homologue of proto-oncogene c-kit (KIT) by comparing DNA sequences from horses with solid coat colour and horses homozygous for the tobiano spotting (To) gene. The allele associated with solid coat colour was designated KM0, while the allele associated wit...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Brooks SA,Terry RB,Bailey E

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were available for 12 poultry microsatellites and 29 poultry single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and for 34 cattle microsatellites and 36 cattle SNPs. Stochastic permutation was used to determine the number of SNPs needed to obtain the same average information content as a given number of microsatellites. For...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Schopen GC,Bovenhuis H,Visker MH,van Arendonk JA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Economically important reproduction traits in sheep, such as number of lambs weaned and litter size, are expressed only in females and later in life after most selection decisions are made, which makes them ideal candidates for genomic selection. Accurate genomic predictions would lead to greater genetic gain for thes...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Bolormaa S,Brown DJ,Swan AA,van der Werf JHJ,Hayes BJ,Daetwyler HD

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Refinement of previous QTL on porcine chromosome 12 for fatty-acid composition and a candidate gene association analysis were conducted using an Iberian x Landrace cross. The concentrations of ten fatty acids were assayed in backfat tissue from which four metabolic ratios were calculated for 403 F2 animals. Linkage an...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Muñoz G,Alves E,Fernández A,Ovilo C,Barragán C,Estellé J,Quintanilla R,Folch JM,Silió L,Rodríguez MC,Fernández AI

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite polymorphisms are finding increasing use in genetics. In addition to the random isolation of microsatellite markers, such markers can also be developed from sequences already present in public domain databases. An advantage of public domain databases is that these microsatellites are known to be located...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Crooijmans RP,van der Poel JJ,Groenen MA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we performed a sequence characterization of the duck melanocortin 1 receptor (alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor) (MC1R) gene to analyze the relationship between MC1R polymorphism and the extended black variant in domestic ducks based on the extended black (E) and non-extended black (e(+) ) a...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Yu W,Wang C,Xin Q,Li S,Feng Y,Peng X,Gong Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding fibrillin-1 (FBN1), a component of the extracellular microfibril, cause Marfan syndrome (MFS). Frequent observation of cattle with a normal withers height, but lower body weight than age-matched normal cattle, was recently reported among cattle sired by phenotypically normal Bull A, in J...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Hirano T,Matsuhashi T,Kobayashi N,Watanabe T,Sugimoto Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhadinovirus ovine herpesvirus-2 (OvHV-2) is the most common causative agent of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) in clinically susceptible ruminants including cattle and bison. American bison (Bison bison) are highly susceptible to clinical MCF. Nevertheless, approximately 20% of bison on ranches or in feedlots bec...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Traul DL,Li H,Dasgupta N,O'Toole D,Eldridge JA,Besser TE,Davies CJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the origin and genetic diversity of Italian horses, mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequences were generated for 163 horses from seven breeds. Sequence analysis of a 480-bp segment revealed a total of 84 haplotypes with 57 polymorphic sites, indicating multiple maternal origins and high genetic diversity. Compa...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Bigi D,Perrotta G,Zambonelli P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated at the genome-wide level if 20 years of artificial directional selection based on boar genetic evaluation obtained with a classical BLUP animal model shaped the genome of the Italian Large White pig breed. The most influential boars of this breed (n = 192), born from 1992 (the beginning ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Schiavo G,Galimberti G,Calò DG,Samorè AB,Bertolini F,Russo V,Gallo M,Buttazzoni L,Fontanesi L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donkey domestication drastically changed ancient transport systems in Africa and Asia, enabling overland circulation of people and goods and influencing the organization of early cities and pastoral societies. Genetic studies based on mtDNA have pointed to the African wild ass as the most probable ancestor of the dome...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Rosenbom S,Costa V,Al-Araimi N,Kefena E,Abdel-Moneim AS,Abdalla MA,Bakhiet A,Beja-Pereira A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing is a post-transcription maturation process that diversifies genomically encoded information and can lead to transcriptome diversity. Thanks to next-generation sequencing technologies, a large number of editing sites have been identified in different species. Although this mechanism is well described in mam...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Shafiei H,Bakhtiarizadeh MR,Salehi A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic criteria should be carefully defined and described in disease association studies to allow (1) comparison among studies from different laboratories evaluating the same disease, (2) critical evaluation of selection procedures of patients, and (3) to strengthen genuine associations with any genetic marker sys...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： McClure JJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic consequences of population differentiation and isolation have been the subject of conservation biology. In this study, we analysed the genetic diversity and structure of Mongolian sheep in China. These animals belong to a traditional local breed with high production, extensive adaption, early maturity and ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Zhong T,Han JL,Guo J,Zhao QJ,Fu BL,Pu YB,He XH,Jeon JT,Guan WJ,Ma YH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new variant of glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI), also known as phosphohexose isomerase (PHI), was detected in a primitive pig population. ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Van de Weghe A,Yablanski T,Van Zeveren A,Bouquet Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marker-assisted selection (MAS) uses genetic marker genotypes to predict an animal's production potential and will provide additional selection information for progeny testing. With the discovery of highly polymorphic microsatellite markers, the tools now exist to begin the search for economic trait loci (ETL), which ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Ashwell MS,Rexroad CE Jr,Miller RH,VanRaden PM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variation (CNV), an essential form of genetic variation, has been increasingly recognized as one promising genetic marker in the analysis of animal genomes. Here, we used the Equine 70K single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping array for the genome-wide detection of CNVs in 96 horses from three diverse Chi...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Kader A,Liu X,Dong K,Song S,Pan J,Yang M,Chen X,He X,Jiang L,Ma Y

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00