Breeding for higher prolificacy may improve lamb production efficiency in semi-intensive and
intensive sheep-production systems. Crossbreeding of native breeds with exotic prolific …

Background The detection of selective traits in different populations can not only reveal
current mechanisms of artificial selection for breeding, but also provide new insights into …

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 …

Intensive artificial selection has been imposed in Yunshang black goats, the first black
specialist mutton goat breed in China, with a breeding object of improving reproductive …

Abstract GREM1 (gremlin1) is a known inhibitor for BMP15 (bone morphogenetic protein 15)
family, but its genetic diversity in sheep is unknown. The present study was conducted to …

Milk production and composition are the most economically important traits affecting
profitability in dairy cattle. In this study, we aimed at detecting signatures of positive selection …

Through long term natural and artificial selection, domestic sheep (Ovis aries) have become
adapted to a diverse range of agro-ecological environments and display multiple phenotypic …

Simple Summary It is difficult to improve the reproductive performance of sheep (fecundity,
fertility, and prolificacy) through the simple selection of animals that are outstanding due to …

Background Understanding the evolutionary forces related to climate changes that have
been shaped genetic variation within species has long been a fundamental pursuit in …

The exploration of multiple birth-related genes has always been a significant focus in sheep
breeding. This study aimed to find more genes and proteins related to the litter size in sheep …