Identification of consensus homozygous regions and their associations with growth and feed efficiency traits in American mink

P Davoudi, DN Do, B Rathgeber, S Colombo… - BMC Genomic …, 2024 - Springer
The recent chromosome-based genome assembly and the newly developed 70K single
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array for American mink (Neogale vison) facilitate the …

Exploring biological impacts of prenatal nutrition and selection for residual feed intake on beef cattle using Omics technologies: A review

A Foroutan, DS Wishart, C Fitzsimmons - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Approximately 70% of the cost of beef production is impacted by dietary intake. Maximizing
production efficiency of beef cattle requires not only genetic selection to maximize feed …

Effects of different prenatal nutrition strategies on the liver metabolome of bulls and its correlation with body and liver weight

GHG Polizel, FACQ Cançado, EFF Dias, AC Fernandes… - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the effect of prenatal nutrition on liver metabolome and on body (BW)
and liver weight (LW) of Nellore bulls at slaughter. Three treatments were applied in 126 …

Genetic potential for residual feed intake and diet fed during early-to mid-gestation influences post-natal DNA methylation of imprinted genes in muscle and liver …

J Devos, A Behrouzi, F Paradis… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Discovery of epigenetic modifications associated with feed efficiency or other economically
important traits would increase our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying …

PSVIII-29 Nutritional Epigenetic Modifications in Beef Cattle

M Gibril, A Behrouzi… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nutrition of the beef cow during pregnancy influences fetal development and potential
changes in phenotype. On average 9 to 10% of the beef cattle herd are below the optimal …