Milk fatty acids are essential for many dairy product productions, while intramuscular fat
(IMF) is associated with the quality of meat. The triacylglycerols (TAGs) are the major …

Background Body weight (BW) is an important trait for meat production in sheep. Although
over the past few years, numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been detected for …

Background One of the approaches to detect genetics variants affecting fitness traits is to
identify their surrounding genomic signatures of past selection. With established methods for …

In this study, we used the Illumina OvineSNP50 BeadChip to conduct a genome-wide
association (GWA) analysis for milk production traits in dairy sheep by analyzing a …

Background The current large spectrum of sheep phenotypic diversity results from the
combined product of sheep selection for different production traits such as wool, milk and …

In Europe, especially in Mediterranean areas, the sheep has been traditionally exploited as
a dual purpose species, with income from both meat and milk. Modernization of husbandry …

Growth hormone and prolactin belong to the class of peptide hormones that have a wide
range of regulatory functions. In this study, polymorphisms of growth hormone receptor …

The growth hormone receptor (GHR), the growth hormone releasing hormone receptor
(GHRHR), and the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) genes are known to modulate growth …

Abstract The core of Evo-Devo lies in the intuition that the way tissues grow during
embryonic development, the way they sustain their structure and function throughout …

In this study, 2 procedures were used to analyze a data set from a whole-genome scan, one
based on linkage analysis information and the other combing linkage disequilibrium and …