Haplotypic variation and characteristics across the toll-like receptor 3 locus in chickens.

abstract：:To detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) for litter size related traits, the total number of born piglets (TNB), the number of born alive piglets (NBA), the number of stillborn piglets (NSB) and the number of mummies (NM) at the first parity were recorded in 299 F(2) sows in a White Duroc x Chinese Erhualian intercross...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Li K,Ren J,Xing Y,Zhang Z,Ma J,Guo Y,Huang L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships among Chinese buffalo populations, 18 indigenous swamp buffalo populations and two introduced river buffalo breeds were genotyped for 30 microsatellite loci. The mean number of alleles across the 30 loci was 8.13, and the expected heterozygosity ranged from...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Sun D,Yu Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fragment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region (approximately 700 bp) was sequenced in 104 individuals from 20 breeds (three Chinese domestic breeds, five recently derived breeds and 12 introduced breeds) of domestic rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus. Nineteen sites were polymorphic, with 18 transitions and one i...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Long JR,Qiu XP,Zeng FT,Tang LM,Zhang YP

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Relatively large rates of response to traits of economic importance have been observed in different selection experiments in salmon. Several QTL have been mapped in the salmon genome, explaining unprecedented levels of phenotypic variation. Owing to the relatively large selection intensity, individual loci may be indi...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Martinez V,Dettleff P,Lopez P,Fernandez G,Jedlicki A,Yañez JM,Davidson WS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical-chemical traits are diagnostic parameters essential for characterization of health and disease in veterinary practice. The traits show significant variability and are under genetic control, but little is known about the fundamental genetic architecture of this variability, especially in swine. We have identif...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Reiner G,Clemens N,Fischer R,Köhler F,Berge T,Hepp S,Willems H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate quantitative trait loci (QTL) in previously identified regions of chicken chromosomes 1, 4 and 5 relating to 40-day body weights and conformation scores. Half-sib (HS) and variance component analyses were implemented and compared using QTL Express software. Data were from a two-...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Rowe SJ,Windsor D,Haley CS,Burt DW,Hocking PM,Griffin H,Vincent J,De Koning DJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that the p.Lys232Ala substitution in the acylCoA: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT1) gene and the p.Phe279Tyr mutation in the growth hormone receptor (GHR) gene are the causative quantitative trait loci underlying milk yield and composition on BTA14 and BTA20 respectively. To exa...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Sun D,Jia J,Ma Y,Zhang Y,Wang Y,Yu Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNA probes for the porcine calcium release channel gene (CRC) were used in restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis in an attempt to develop genetic markers linked to the malignant hyperthermia (stress susceptibility) gene (HAL). Three TaqI RFLPs, denoted CRC1-CRC3, each composed of two alleles, w...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Mariani P,Johansson M,Ellegren H,Harbitz I,Juneja RK,Andersson L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous GWAS carried out in a Duroc commercial line (Lipgen population), we detected on pig chromosomes 3, 4 and 14 several QTL for gluteus medius muscle redness (GM a*), electric conductivity in the longissimus dorsi muscle (LD CE) and vaccenic acid content in the LD muscle (LD C18:1 n - 7), respectively. We have...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Mármol-Sánchez E,Quintanilla R,Jordana J,Amills M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractures are medical conditions that compromise the athletic potential of horses and/or the safety of jockeys. Therefore, the reduction of fracture risk is an important horse and human welfare issue. The present study used molecular genetic approaches to determine the effect of genetic risk for fracture at four candi...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Tozaki T,Kusano K,Ishikawa Y,Kushiro A,Nomura M,Kikuchi M,Kakoi H,Hirota K,Miyake T,Hill EW,Nagata S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in domestication and selection processes have contributed to considerable phenotypic and genotypic differences between Bos taurus and Bos indicus cattle breeds. Of particular interest in tropical and subtropical production environments are those genetic differences between subspecies that underlie the phen...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Gasparin G,Miyata M,Coutinho LL,Martinez ML,Teodoro RL,Furlong J,Machado MA,Silva MV,Sonstegard TS,Regitano LC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification and regression tree (CART) modelling was used to determine infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV) resistance and susceptibility in Penaeus stylirostris. In a previous study, eight random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers and viral load values using real-time quantitative ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Hizer SE,Wright TM,Garcia DK

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have characterized the mitochondrial diversity of 81 swine from Uganda. Median-joining network analysis of D-loop sequences from these individuals and others characterized in previous studies allowed us to determine that Ugandan pigs cluster with populations from the West (Europe/North Africa), Far E...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Noce A,Amills M,Manunza A,Muwanika V,Muhangi D,Aliro T,Mayega J,Ademun R,Sànchez A,Egbhalsaied S,Mercadé A,Masembe C

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albino phenotypes are documented in various species including the American mink. In other species the albino phenotypes are associated with tyrosinase (TYR) gene mutations; therefore TYR was considered the candidate gene for albinism in mink. Four microsatellite markers were chosen in the predicted region of the TYR g...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Anistoroaei R,Fredholm M,Christensen K,Leeb T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDSs) are a heterogeneous group of inherited connective tissue disorders characterized by skin hyperextensibility, joint hypermobility and tissue fragility. Inherited disorders similar to human EDS have been reported in different mammalian species. In the present study, we investigated a f...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Bauer A,de Lucia M,Leuthard F,Jagannathan V,Leeb T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) is an imprinted gene expressed in most tissues affecting lean muscle content in mice, pigs and cattle. We previously identified the bovine IGF2 c.-292C>T SNP in the non-translated exon 2. Using this SNP, we demonstrated biallelic expression of IGF2 after birth. Seven alternatively s...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Goodall JJ,Schmutz SM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alloimmune reagent has been produced that distinguishes the equine factor Df in the D phenogroup, cfmqr, from that occurring in cefmqr and dfklr. Using this reagent it has been possible to correctly genotype Dc, d, f, k, l, m, q and r positive cells without recourse to family data. ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Bell K,Colling DT

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphic bands were detected within the DQB and DRB regions of the ovine major histocompatibility complex by probing TaqI digested DNA from three large sheep half-sib families derived from a highly resistant ram. All animals were phenotypically assessed for Haemonchus contortus resistance by faecal egg counts and a...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Blattman AN,Hulme DJ,Kinghorn BP,Woolaston RR,Gray GD,Beh KJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, is an important pollinator commercially used on a global scale. The exported subspecies B. t. terrestris has colonised diverse environments, in some cases displacing wild pollinators to the verge of local extinction. In this sense, the native Iberian subspecies B. t. lusitanicus may b...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Cejas D,López-López A,Muñoz I,Ornosa C,De la Rúa P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pioneering study showed that the glycosphingolipid biosynthesis-globo series pathway genes (FUT1, FUT2, ST3GAL1, HEXA, HEXB, B3GALNT1 and NAGA) may play an important regulatory role in resistance to Escherichia coli F18 in piglets. Therefore, we analysed differential gene expression in 11 tissues of two populations ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Dong WH,Dai CH,Sun L,Wang J,Sun SY,Zhu GQ,Wu SL,Bao WB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colostrum intake is critical to a piglet's survival and can be measured by precipitating out the γ-immunoglobulins from serum with ammonium sulfate (immunocrit). Genetic analysis of immunocrits on 5312 piglets indicated that the heritabilities (se) for direct and maternal effects were 0.13 (0.06) and 0.53 (0.08) respe...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Rohrer GA,Rempel LA,Miles JR,Keele JW,Wiedmann RT,Vallet JL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inheritance pattern of the skeletal muscle hypertrophy phenotype caused by the callipyge gene has been characterized as polar overdominance. We hypothesized that this trait may be caused by a gain or loss of gene expression because of the reversible nature of the phenotype in paternal vs. maternal inheritance. Sup...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Bidwell CA,Shay TL,Georges M,Beever JE,Berghmans S,Cockett NE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stearoyl-CoA desaturase (delta-9-desaturase; SCD) gene is a candidate gene for fatty acid composition. It is located on pig SSC14 in a region where quantitative trait loci (QTL) for fatty acid composition were previously detected in a Duroc purebred population. The objective of the present study was to fine map th...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Uemoto Y,Nakano H,Kikuchi T,Sato S,Ishida M,Shibata T,Kadowaki H,Kobayashi E,Suzuki K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amber (previously called X-Colour) is a yellow recessive coat colour observed in the Norwegian Forest Cat (NFC) population and apparently absent in other cat breeds. Until now, there has never been any scientific evidence of yellow recessive mutation (e) reported in the extension gene in Felidae. We sequenced the comp...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Peterschmitt M,Grain F,Arnaud B,Deléage G,Lambert V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the allele frequency of the glycogen synthase 1 (GYS1) mutation associated with polysaccharide storage myopathy type 1 in the Austrian Noriker horse. Furthermore, we examined the influence of population substructures on the allele distribution. The study was based upon a comprehe...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Druml T,Grilz-Seger G,Neuditschko M,Brem G

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goat CSN1S2 locus is characterized by the presence of three alleles, A, B and C, all associated with about 2.5 g/l of protein per allele. The SDS-PAGE analysis of 441 individual milk samples obtained from goats belonging to a population reared in Southern Italy showed that the milk produced by three goats did not ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Ramunno L,Longobardi E,Pappalardo M,Rando A,Di Gregorio P,Cosenza G,Mariani P,Pastore N,Masina P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative assessment of genetic diversity within and between populations is important for decision-making in genetic conservation plans. In our study, we applied the livestock core set method to define the contribution of 15 cattle breeds, 11 of which are Portuguese indigenous cattle breeds, to genetic diversit...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Mateus JC,Eding H,Penedo MC,Rangel-Figueiredo MT

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Among all livestock species, cattle have a prominent status as they have contributed greatly to the economy, nutrition and culture from the beginning of farming societies until the present time. The origins and diversity of local cattle breeds have been widely assessed. However, there are still some regions for which ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Mahgoub O,Babiker HA,Kadim IT,Al-Kindi M,Hassan S,Al-Marzooqi W,Eltahir YE,Al-Abri MA,Al-Khayat A,Al-Sinani KR,Hilal Al-Khanjari H,Costa V,Chen S,Beja-Pereira A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00