Non-replication of genome-wide-based associations of efficient food conversion in dairy cows.

abstract：:One hundred and eighty-nine Thoroughbred horses that had won Graded Stakes races in North America were genotyped with the Illumina Equine SNP50 bead chip. Association tests using PLINK to determine whether any SNPs were associated with optimum racing distance (7 furlongs and under compared to 8-10 furlongs) identified...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Binns MM,Boehler DA,Lambert DH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of triploidization in fish is a very common practice in aquaculture. Although triploidization has been applied successfully in many salmonid species, little is known about the epigenetic mechanisms implicated in the maintenance of the normal functions of the new polyploid genome. By means of methylation-...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Covelo-Soto L,Leunda PM,Pérez-Figueroa A,Morán P

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:A bovine genomic large-insert bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library has been constructed from leukocytes of a Holstein-Friesian male. Size fractionated DpnII-digested genomic DNA was ligated to the dephosphorylated BamH1 ends of a pBACe3.6 vector. Approximately 8.3 x 10(4) individual BAC clones were picked int...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Buitkamp J,Kollers S,Durstewitz G,Welzel K,Schäfer K,Kellermann A,Lehrach H,Fries R

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feed efficiency and growth are the most important traits in pig production, and very few genetic markers have been reported to be associated with feed efficiency. The suppressor of cytokine signalling-2 (encoded by SOCS2) is the main negative regulator of somatic growth, and the knockout of SOCS2 and naturally mutant ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Chen Y,Piper E,Zhang Y,Tier B,Graser HU,Luxford BG,Moran C

更新日期：2011-04-01 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 the present study, 25 195 BAC ends for channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) were sequenced, generating 20 366 clean BAC-end sequences (BES), with an average read length of 557 bp after trimming. A total of 11 414 601 bp were generated, representing approximately 1.2% of the catfish genome. Based on this survey, th...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Xu P,Wang S,Liu L,Peatman E,Somridhivej B,Thimmapuram J,Gong G,Liu Z

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is an important fish for aquaculture, but genomics of this species is still in its infancy. In this study, a linkage map of common carp based on Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) and microsatellite (SSR) markers has been generated using gynogenetic haploids. Of 926 markers gen...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Cheng L,Liu L,Yu X,Wang D,Tong J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial artificial clone-based physical map for chicken plays an important role in the integration of the consensus linkage map and the whole-genome shotgun sequence. It also provides a valuable resource for clone selection within applications such as fluorescent in situ hybridization and positional cloning. How...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Aerts JA,Veenendaal T,van der Poel JJ,Crooijmans RP,Groenen MA

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:A parallel testing of 4803 routine Quarter Horse parentage cases, using 15 loci of blood group and protein polymorphisms (blood typing) and 11 loci of dinucleotide repeat microsatellites (DNA typing), validated DNA markers for horse pedigree verification. For the 26 loci, taken together, the theoretical effectiveness ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Bowling AT,Eggleston-Stott ML,Byrns G,Clark RS,Dileanis S,Wictum E

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：: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：:Intensive artificial selection has been imposed in Yunshang black goats, the first black specialist mutton goat breed in China, with a breeding object of improving reproductive performance, which has contributed to reshaping of the genome including the characterization of SNP, ROH and haplotype. However, variation in ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Tao L,He XY,Jiang YT,Lan R,Li M,Li ZM,Yang WF,Hong QH,Chu MX

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA (miRNA) is a class of single-stranded small (19-24nt) regulatory RNA that silences gene expression post-transcriptionally. miRNAs regulate a wide range of biological processes through the recognition of complementary sequences between miRNAs and their target genes. Profiling studies in livestock have revealed...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Liu HC,Hicks JA,Trakooljul N,Zhao SH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-five individuals of Bubalus bubalis belonging to four different breeds, three of river buffalo and one of swamp buffalo, were studied for polymorphism in MHC DRB (Bubu-DRB) and DRA (Bubu-DRA) loci. Eight alleles of Bubu-DRB were found, and all alleles in the swamp type were shared with the three river breeds. ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Sena L,Schneider MP,Brenig B,Honeycutt RL,Womack JE,Skow LC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The silkworm, Bombyx mori, is an economically important insect that was domesticated more than 5000 years ago. Its major economic traits focused on by breeders are quantitative traits, and an accurate and efficient QTL mapping method is necessary to explore their genetic architecture. However, current widely used QTL ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Li C,Zuo W,Tong X,Hu H,Qiao L,Song J,Xiong G,Gao R,Dai F,Lu C

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-resolution comprehensive map was constructed for porcine chromosome (SSC) 6, where quantitative trait loci (QTL) for reproduction and meat quality traits have been reported to exist. A radiation hybrid (RH) map containing 105 gene-based markers and 15 microsatellite markers was constructed for this chromosome u...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Cao H,Robinson JA,Jiang Z,Melville JS,Golovan SP,Jones MW,Verrinder Gibbins AM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol deficiency, a new autosomal recessive inherited genetic defect in Holstein cattle, has been recently reported to have an influence on the rearing success of calves. The affected animals show unresponsive diarrhea accompanied by hypocholesterolemia and usually die within the first weeks or months of life. H...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Menzi F,Besuchet-Schmutz N,Fragnière M,Hofstetter S,Jagannathan V,Mock T,Raemy A,Studer E,Mehinagic K,Regenscheit N,Meylan M,Schmitz-Hsu F,Drögemüller C

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:A feral donkey population (Equus asinus), living in the Asinara National Park (an island north-west of Sardinia, Italy), includes a unique white albino donkey subpopulation or colour morph that is a major attraction of this park. Disrupting mutations in the tyrosinase (TYR) gene are known to cause recessive albinisms ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Utzeri VJ,Bertolini F,Ribani A,Schiavo G,Dall'Olio S,Fontanesi L

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested positional candidate genes adiponectin (ADIPOQ) and somatostatin (SST) for effects on carcass traits in a commercially relevant cattle population. Both genes are located within a region of BTA1 previously reported to harbour quantitative trait loci (QTL) that affect marbling, quality grade, yield gra...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Morsci NS,Schnabel RD,Taylor JF

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a whole genome scan undertaken to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting milk yield and composition, we have genotyped a granddaughter design comprising 1152 sons for six microsatellite markers spanning bovine chromosome 20. An analysis performed across families provided strong evidence (experiment-...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Arranz JJ,Coppieters W,Berzi P,Cambisano N,Grisart B,Karim L,Marcq F,Moreau L,Mezer C,Riquet J,Simon P,Vanmanshoven P,Wagenaar D,Georges M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) in Africa remains largely unknown. After being first introduced from the Near East, sheep gradually spread through the African continent with pastoral societies. The eastern part of Africa was important either for the first diffusion of sheep southward or for putative seconda...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Resende A,Gonçalves J,Muigai AW,Pereira F

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNAs from animals representing six breeds of cattle (Angus, Brahman, Hereford, Holstein, Jersey and Texas Longhorn) were screened with cloned gene probes in a search for restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). Eleven RFLPs were identified using seven different probes: growth hormone, prolactin, oste...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Theilmann JL,Skow LC,Baker JF,Womack JE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fat-tailed sheep have commercial value because consumers prefer high-protein and low-fat food and producers care about feed conversion rate. However, fat-tailed sheep still have some scientific significance, as the fat tail is commonly regarded as a characteristic of environmental adaptability. Finding the candidate g...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Yuan Z,Liu E,Liu Z,Kijas JW,Zhu C,Hu S,Ma X,Zhang L,Du L,Wang H,Wei C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents evidence that sheep haemopexin phenotypes are genetically controlled by three alleles, HpxA, HpxB1 and HpxB2, of a single autosomal locus. Frequencies of two alleles, HpxA and HpxB (HpxB encompasses two isoalleles, HpxB1 and HpxB2), were studied in eight sheep breeds in Czechoslovakia. The frequenc...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Stratil A,Bobák P,Margetín M,Glasnák V

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood samples of llamas and alpacas were typed using haemolytic, electrophoretic and isoelectric focusing procedures to assay polymorphism at 13 loci. Blood group variation was assessed using six antibody specificities produced by allo- and heteroimmunizations. Two red cell factors (A and B) behave as autosomal, codom...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Penedo MC,Fowler ME,Bowling AT,Anderson DL,Gordon L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA samples obtained from sheep homozygous for HbA, for HbB and heterozygous were subjected to Southern blot analysis using a goat beta F and a rabbit beta 1-globin gene as probes. Sheep homozygous for HbA show a different restriction pattern from that of sheep homozygous for HbB with each of the used endonucleases. T...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Di Gregorio P,Rando A,Masina P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00