Adaptation to hot climate and strategies to alleviate heat stress in livestock production

D Renaudeau, A Collin, S Yahav, V De Basilio… - Animal, 2012 - cambridge.org
Despite many challenges faced by animal producers, including environmental problems,
diseases, economic pressure, and feed availability, it is still predicted that animal production …

The genetics of thermoregulation in pigs: A review

JL Gourdine, WM Rauw, H Gilbert… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Heat stress (HS) affects pig performance, health and welfare, resulting in a financial burden
to the pig industry. Pigs have a limited number of functional sweat glands and their …

Primary genome scan to identify putative quantitative trait loci for feedlot growth rate, feed intake, and feed efficiency of beef cattle

JD Nkrumah, EL Sherman, C Li… - Journal of animal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Feed intake and feed efficiency of beef cattle are economically relevant traits. The study was
conducted to identify QTL for feed intake and feed efficiency of beef cattle by using genotype …

Association analysis of production traits of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) using restriction-site associated DNA sequencing

MI Haqani, M Nakano, AJ Nagano, Y Nakamura… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study was designed to perform an association analysis and identify SNP markers
associated with production traits of Japanese quail using restriction-site-associated DNA …

Manipulative signals in family conflict? On the function of maternal yolk hormones in birds

W Müller, CKM Lessells, P Korsten… - The American …, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Maternal hormones in the yolk of birds' eggs have been a focus of attention in behavioral
and evolutionary ecology stimulated by the pioneering work of Hubert Schwabl. Since then …

Epigenetics and phenotypic variability: some interesting insights from birds

L Frésard, M Morisson, JM Brun, A Collin… - Genetics Selection …, 2013 - Springer
Little is known about epigenetic mechanisms in birds with the exception of the phenomenon
of dosage compensation of sex chromosomes, although such mechanisms could be …

Identification of quantitative trait loci for body temperature, body weight, breast yield, and digestibility in an advanced intercross line of chickens under heat stress

A Van Goor, KJ Bolek, CM Ashwell, ME Persia… - Genetics Selection …, 2015 - Springer
Background Losses in poultry production due to heat stress have considerable negative
economic consequences. Previous studies in poultry have elucidated a genetic influence on …

Transcriptome-wide investigation of genomic imprinting in chicken

L Fresard, S Leroux, B Servin, D Gourichon… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic mechanism by which alleles of some specific genes are
expressed in a parent-of-origin manner. It has been observed in mammals and marsupials …

Integrated maps in quail (Coturnix japonica) confirm the high degree of synteny conservation with chicken (Gallus gallus) despite 35 million years of divergence

BB Kayang, V Fillon, M Inoue-Murayama, M Miwa… - BMC genomics, 2006 - Springer
Background By comparing the quail genome with that of chicken, chromosome
rearrangements that have occurred in these two galliform species over 35 million years of …

QTL for several metabolic traits map to loci controlling growth and body composition in an F2 intercross between high- and low-growth chicken lines

J Nadaf, F Pitel, H Gilbert, MJ Duclos… - Physiological …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) for metabolic and body composition traits were mapped at 7 and
9 wk, respectively, in an F2 intercross between high-growth and low-growth chicken lines …