Detecting selection signatures in three Iranian sheep breeds.

abstract：:A quantitative trait locus (QTL) for boar fat androstenone levels has been identified near the SSC7 centromere in a Large White × Meishan cross. Backcrosses were produced to isolate the Chinese haplotype in a European genetic background. The expression of 25 genes from the QTL region was studied in the testes and live...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Robic A,Fève K,Larzul C,Billon Y,van Son M,Liaubet L,Sarry J,Milan D,Grindflek E,Bidanel JP,Riquet J

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the genetic basis of variation in traits related to growth and fillet quality in Atlantic salmon is of importance to the aquaculture industry. Several growth-related QTL have been identified via the application of genetic markers. The IGF1 gene is considered a highly conserved and crucial growth-regulati...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Tsai HY,Hamilton A,Guy DR,Houston RD

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Good eggshell quality is important for both table egg quality and chicken reproductive performance. Weak eggshells cause economic losses in all production steps. Poor eggshell quality also poses increased risk for Salmonella infections. Eggshell quality has been a difficult trait to improve by traditional breeding, as...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Tuiskula-Haavisto M,Honkatukia M,Preisinger R,Schmutz M,de Koning DJ,Wei WH,Vilkki J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWASes) have been performed to search for genomic regions associated with residual feed intake (RFI); however inconsistent results have been obtained. A meta-analysis may improve these results by decreasing the false-positive rate. Additionally, pathway analysis is a powerful tool that...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Duarte DAS,Newbold CJ,Detmann E,Silva FF,Freitas PHF,Veroneze R,Duarte MS

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) in horses is the result of an interaction of genetic and environmental factors and shares many characteristics with human asthma. Many studies have suggested that the interleukin-4 receptor gene (IL4R) is associated with this disease, and a QTL region on chromosome 13 containing IL4R...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Klukowska-Rötzler J,Swinburne JE,Drögemüller C,Dolf G,Janda J,Leeb T,Gerber V

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yolk ratio is an important production index in the salted duck egg industry. Yolk constituents are deposited during development of follicles. However, the molecular mechanism responsible for different yolk ratios in laying ducks remains elusive. In this study, Shaoxing ducks laying eggs with different yolk ratios were...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Du X,Ren JD,Xu XQ,Chen GH,Huang Y,Du JP,Tao ZR,Cai ZX,Lu LZ,Yang H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships among 26 Chinese indigenous horse breeds and two introduced horse breeds by genotyping these animals for 27 microsatellite loci. The 26 Chinese horse breeds come from 12 different provinces. Two introduced horse breeds were the Mongolia B Horse from Mo...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Ling YH,Ma YH,Guan WJ,Cheng YJ,Wang YP,Han JL,Mang L,Zhao QJ,He XH,Pu YB,Fu BL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Centromere mapping is an essential prerequisite for our understanding of the composition and structure of genomes. For centromere mapping, in two meiogynogenetic families of the Pacific abalone (Haliotis discus hannai), we screened 97 microsatellite markers that cover all linkage groups from a currently available abal...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Nie H,Li Q,Kong L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic differentiation and phylogenetic relationships of 18 indigenous goat populations from seven East Asian countries were analysed based on data obtained from 26 microsatellite DNA markers. The mean number of alleles (MNA) per population ranged from 2.5 to 7.6, with an average of 5.8. Genetic variability estim...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Nomura K,Ishii K,Dadi H,Takahashi Y,Minezawa M,Cho CY,Sutopo,Faruque MO,Nyamsamba D,Amano T

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Sorted chromosomes from each of the 20 clusters of the male porcine bivariate flow karyotype were amplified and biotinylated using DOP-PCR. The chromosomes comprising each cluster were identified by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of the 20 probes to R-banded male pig metaphase spreads. A standard flow karyo...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Langford CF,Telenius H,Miller NG,Thomsen PD,Tucker EM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have for the first time assessed the ability of the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system to enhance transgenesis in chicken and turkey cells. The efficiency of transgenesis with a transposon encoding an antibiotic resistance gene was dramatically enhanced 15- to 35-fold when transposase was supplied by co-transfe...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Kong BW,Carlson DF,Fahrenkrug SC,Foster DN

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first radiation hybrid (RH) map of river buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) chromosome 6 (BBU6) developed with a recently constructed river buffalo whole-genome RH panel (BBURH(5000)). The preliminary map contains 33 cattle-derived markers, including 12 microsatellites, 19 coding genes and two ESTs, distributed ...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Stafuzza NB,Ianella P,Miziara MN,Agarwala R,Schäffer AA,Riggs PK,Womack JE,Amaral ME

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Animal growth relative to food energy input is of key importance to agricultural production. Several recent studies highlighted genetic markers associated with food conversion efficiency in beef cattle, and there is now a requirement to validate these associations in additional populations and to assess their potentia...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Littlejohn M,Grala T,Sanders K,Walker C,Waghorn G,Macdonald K,Spelman R,Davis S,Snell R

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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 use of the AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) technique for the characterization of highly inbred Iberian pig breed genotypes and the detection of strain-specific polymorphisms is demonstrated. Twelve different primer combinations were used on individual DNA samples from animals belonging to two black h...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Ovilo C,Cervera MT,Castellanos C,Martínez-Zapater JM

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Systems involving many variables are important in population and quantitative genetics, for example, in multi-trait prediction of breeding values and in exploration of multi-locus associations. We studied departures of the joint distribution of sets of genetic variables from independence. New measures of association b...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Gianola D,Manfredi E,Simianer H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative transcription analysis of Ig κ-light chains (IGK) of the cattle breeds Holstein Friesian (HF), German Black Pied (GBP), German Simmental (GS) and Aubrac (A) revealed three alleles coding for two putative allotypic variants of IGKC. The amino acid residues p.Asp100Asn and p.Thr116Ala were located at the o...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Stein SK,Diesterbeck US,Aboelhassan DM,Czerny CP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2015, cholesterol deficiency (CD) was reported for the first time as a new recessive defect in Holstein cattle. After GWAS mapping and identification of a disease-associated haplotype, a causative loss-of-function variant in APOB was identified. CD-clinically affected APOB homozygotes showed poor development, inter...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Häfliger IM,Hofstetter S,Mock T,Stettler MH,Meylan M,Mehinagic K,Stokar-Regenscheit N,Drögemüller C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A map of the ovine MHC class II DQ subregion has been constructed from overlapping cosmid clones. This region consists of two loci linked on a linear tract of 130 kb DNA. Each locus consists of a DQA and a DQB gene in a tail-to-tail orientation. The genes in each locus are transcribed but only those designated DQ1 exp...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Wright H,Ballingall KT

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：: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 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 myxovirus resistance (Mx) proteins belong to the dynamin superfamily and are important for innate host defence against RNA viruses. In this study, we demonstrate that positive elements are present in the two promoter regions of -2713 to -2565 and -688 to -431 in the porcine MX1 gene. Sequencing and alignment of th...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Li Y,Liang S,Liu H,Sun Y,Kang L,Jiang Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic loci has implications for both association studies and the accuracy of genomic prediction. To characterise the persistence of LD in diverse sheep breeds, two SNP genotyping platforms were used. First, existing SNP genotypes from 63 breeds obtained using the ovi...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Kijas JW,Porto-Neto L,Dominik S,Reverter A,Bunch R,McCulloch R,Hayes BJ,Brauning R,McEwan J,International Sheep Genomics Consortium.

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tying-up syndrome, also known as recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis in Thoroughbreds, is a common muscle disorder for racehorses. In this study, we performed a multipoint linkage analysis using LOKI based on the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method using 5 half-sib families (51 affected and 277 nonaffected horses...

journal_title：Animal genetics

authors： Tozaki T,Hirota K,Sugita S,Ishida N,Miyake T,Oki H,Hasegawa T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00