Sheep is the second most important dairy species after cow worldwide, and especially in the
Mediterranean and Middle East regions. In some countries, the difficult environmental …

Simple Summary The UK can be proud of the fact that numerous native breeds of sheep
have been developed here that possess unique phenotypic features and excellent …

Improving meat production traits has increased its importance in sheep breeding. We report
novel associations of SNP present in genes related to lipid metabolism and growth with …

In total, 403 milk samples of East Friesian Dairy (EFD) and Lacaune (LAC) sheep hold in
three different flocks in Switzerland and Germany were analysed for milk protein variability at …

There is considerable interest in locally adapted breeds of livestock as reservoirs of genetic
diversity that may provide important fitness traits for future use in agriculture. In marginal …

The linkage maps of sheep and goats are strikingly disparate in terms of
comprehensiveness. Since its inception in 1995, the sheep linkage map has been regularly …

We employed mtDNA and nuclear SNPs to investigate the genetic diversity of sheep breeds
of three countries of the Mediterranean basin: Albania, Greece, and Italy. In total, 154 unique …

Teladorsagia circumcincta is an important pathogenic nematode of sheep. It has been
demonstrated previously that stimulation of murine T lymphocytes with excretory-secretory …

The aim of the present study was to investigate the genetic control of the fatty acid (FA)
composition in milk from 3 breeds of sheep: Altamurana, Gentile di Puglia, and Sarda …

Growth hormone (GH) gene has been described as a candidate gene for marker-assisted
selection in different farm animals. The present study was designed to identify the …