Tropically adapted cattle of Africa: perspectives on potential role of copy number variations.

abstract：:A GWAS was performed using the genotypes obtained by PorcineSNP60 v2 BeadChip and 11 phenotypic traits (carcass lean meat percentage; backfat thickness; Longissimus thoracis muscle thickness; lightness; backfat thickness measured with caliper at the midline; meat pH measured at about 1 h post mortem and 24 h post mort...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Fabbri MC,Zappaterra M,Davoli R,Zambonelli P

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernumerary teats represent a common abnormality of the bovine udder. A genome-wide association study was performed based on the proportion of the occurrence of supernumerary teats in the daughters of 1097 Holstein bulls. The heritability of caudal supernumerary teats without mammary gland in this study was 0.604. T...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Joerg H,Meili C,Ruprecht O,Bangerter E,Burren A,Bigler A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotide probe (OAT36) comprising nine repeats of 5'GACA 3' and several enzymes were used to analyse cow, (Bos taurus) and buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) genomes and a number of monomorphic loci were detected in both the species. Different animals from the same species showed an almost 'similar'...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Ali S,Gauri,Bala S

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work on Belgian Blue cattle revealed that an 11 base pair (bp) deletion within the bovine myostatin gene (GDF8) is associated with the double-muscled phenotype seen in this breed. Investigations focusing on other European breeds known to show double-muscling identified several mutations within the coding region of the...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Smith JA,Lewis AM,Wiener P,Williams JL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage between the amylase-1 (Am-1) locus and a quantitative trait locus influencing fat content in milk was studied in offspring from heterozygous sires of the Swedish Red and White dairy breed. The effect on bull breeding values for fat content was estimated as interactions between sire and paternal Am-1 allele usi...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Andersson-Eklund L,Rendel J

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：: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：:The influence of the major histocompatibility (B) complex and sex on the phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) wattle response was studied in 136 segregants (B2/B2, B2/B5 and B5/B5) of a fourth generation cross between inbred lines 6(1) and 15(1). At 6 weeks of age, chickens were injected with 100 micrograms purified PHA-P. Wattl...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Taylor RL Jr,Cotter PF,Wing TL,Briles WE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450-aromatase enzyme (CYP19), which catalyses the conversion of androgens to oestrogens, is critical in ovarian differentiation and hence in the sex differentiation pathways of non-mammalian vertebrates. As in other fish species, distinct ovarian and brain aromatase genes have been identified in the Nile T...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Harvey SC,Kwon JY,Penman DJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cattle (Bos taurus), there is evidence of more than 50 alleles of BoLA-DQB (bovine lymphocyte antigen DQB) that are distributed across at least five DQB loci, making this region one of the most complex in the BoLA gene family. In this study, DQB alleles were analysed for the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), another...

journal_title：Animal genetics

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

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are differences in performance between genetic groups of channel catfish, identification and management of these groups is difficult because catfish strains look alike and individuals cannot be tagged efficiently. Thus, US catfish producers have not been able to objectively identify fish from different ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Waldbieser GC,Wolters WR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance data for 164,046 Thoroughbreds entered in a race or official barrier trial in Australia were provided by Racing Information Services Australia. Analyses estimating the heritability for a range of racing performance traits using a single-trait animal model were performed using ASREML-R. Log of cumulative ea...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Velie BD,Hamilton NA,Wade CM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular superoxide dismutase (SOD3) is a major antioxidant enzyme that protects organs from damage by reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this study, the SOD3 gene was identified and characterized from the freshwater mussel Hyriopsis cumingii (Hc-SOD3). The cDNA sequence consists of 763 bp, encoding a protein of 2...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Wang GL,Li XL,Li JL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new alleles at the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) mannose-6-phosphate isomerase (E.C. 5.3.1.8, MPI) locus are proposed to account for phenotypes observed after starch gel electrophoresis and enzymatic staining of red cell lysates and tissues. Population data from various wild and domestic rabbit populations are p...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Vieira J,Ferrand N

更新日期：1995-02-01 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

abstract：:After domestication 11 000 years ago in Asia Minor, the goat followed human migration to Europe and Asia. It was then introduced in Africa and is now raised all over the world. In this study, we exploited a dataset composed of 54 000 SNPs (Illumina goat DNA chip) to analyze the genetic diversity of 223 individuals bel...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Oget C,Servin B,Palhière I

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between behavioural trait data and the genotype of 15 polymorphisms in eight neurotransmitter-related genes were analysed in 77 dogs of the Shiba Inu breed, an indigenous Japanese dog. The data were obtained from a 26-item questionnaire on the dog's behaviour, distributed to the dog's owners, through...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Takeuchi Y,Kaneko F,Hashizume C,Masuda K,Ogata N,Maki T,Inoue-Murayama M,Hart BL,Mori Y

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide sequence analysis of polymerase chain reaction products confirmed that ev21 integrated into one of two large homologous elements on the Z chromosome of late-feathering (LF) White Leghorn chickens. Southern blots of NotI-, NaeI-, KspI- and BamHI-digested DNA from early-feathering (EF) and LF White Leghorns, ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Iraqi F,Smith EJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previously reported non-synonymous coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of bovine stearoyl-CoA desaturase (delta-9-desaturase) (SCD) (c.878C>T) and fatty acid synthase (FASN) (g:17924A>G) were assessed for their associations with 72 individual and 12 groups of fatty acids in brisket adipose tissue of 223 ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Li C,Aldai N,Vinsky M,Dugan ME,McAllister TA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two microsatellite loci were analysed in 23 highly inbred chicken lines derived from Leghorn, Jungle Fowl, Fayoumi and Spanish breeds. Line-specific alleles among breeds and lines were detected. The band-sharing (BS) values were calculated and the proportion of shared alleles distances (Dps) were estimated. The ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Zhou H,Lamont SJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of haemoglobin (Hb) has been studied in 260 Norwegian Dairy goats by the Immobiline technique at pH ranges 6.7-7.7, 6.9-7.6 and 6.9-7.5. The majority of goats exhibited two- or four-band patterns. In two-band types the average ratio between the anodal and cathodal band was 74:26. PAGE with 8M urea disti...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Braend M,Nesse LL,Efremov GD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel gene that was predicted to encode a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) transcript was identified in a previous study that aimed to detect candidate genes related to growth rate differences between Chinese local breed Gushi chickens and Anka broilers. To characterise the biological function of the lncRNA, we cloned an...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Mei X,Kang X,Liu X,Jia L,Li H,Li Z,Jiang R

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Six distinct serotypes of the chicken B blood group system (which encodes the major histocompatibility complex) were identified in a commercial broiler breeder line (Line C). The B serotypes were compared by B-G restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, allele-specific PCR typing test for B-LBII family...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Livant EJ,Zheng D,Johnson LW,Shi W,Ewald SJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Based on pairwise identity-by-state (IBS) distances and whole-genome SNP data, kinship was investigated in the Israeli Holstein population. A total of 789 bulls, including most of the artificial insemination sires in service since 1987, were genotyped by the BovineSNP50 BeadChip. This sample included up to five genera...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Seroussi E,Glick G,Shirak A,Ezra E,Zeron Y,Ron M,Weller JI

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we re-sequenced the whole genomes of eight Holstein bulls with high or low milk protein and fat percentage, and we detected two indels in the ACACB (acetyl-CoA carboxylase beta) gene that were polymorphic between the two groups. Thus, we considered ACACB as a promising candidate gene potentially affecting ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Han B,Liang W,Liu L,Li Y,Sun D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00