The prospect of genome editing offers a number of promising opportunities for livestock
breeders. Firstly, these tools can be used in functional genomics to elucidate gene function …

Global population will increase to over nine billion by 2050 with the doubling in demand for
meat and milk. To overcome this challenge, it is necessary to breed highly efficient and …

Advances in genotyping and sequencing a little over a decade ago have greatly enhanced
our ability to read the genomes of livestock, leading to the development and application of …

Transgenic animals are an important source of protein and nutrition for most humans and
will play key roles in satisfying the increasing demand for food in an ever-increasing world …

This issue of Animal Frontiers,“Farm animals are important biomedical models,” describes
several examples in which cattle, sheep, pigs, or chickens provide an excellent …

The Transgenic livestock can be useful for the production of disease-resistant animals, pigs
for xenotranplantation, animal bioreactor for therapeutic recombinant proteins and disease …

Pigs serve as an important agricultural resource and animal model in biomedical studies.
Efficient and precise modification of pig genome by using recently developed gene editing …

The growing demand for animal source foods to feed people has been pushing the livestock
industry to increase productivity, a tendency that will continue throughout this century. The …

Human concern about the status of genetic diversity in livestock breeds and their
conservation has increased, as intense selection and reduced population sizes in many …

Selecting beneficial DNA variants is the main goal of animal breeding. However, this
process is inherently inefficient because each animal only carries a fraction of all desirable …