Thailand is a tropical country affected by global climate change and has high temperatures
and humidity that cause heat stress in livestock. A temperature–humidity index (THI) is …

In the present study, the population genomic data of different cattle breeds were explored to
decipher the genomic regions affected due to selective events and reflected in the …

The main objective of the current research was to locate, annotate, and highlight specific
areas of the bovine genome that are undergoing intense positive selection. Here, we are …

Infertility or subfertility is a critical barrier to sustainable cattle production, including in heifers.
The development of heifers that do not produce a calf within an optimum window of time is a …

Background Genetic progress for fertility and reproduction traits in dairy cattle has been
limited due to the low heritability of most indicator traits. Moreover, most of the quantitative …

Genomic selection (GS) is now practiced successfully across many species. However, many
questions remain, such as long-term effects, estimations of genomic parameters, robustness …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are one of the best ways to look into the
connection between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the phenotypic …

Background The endometrium is a heterogeneous tissue composed of luminal epithelial
(LE), glandular epithelial (GE), and stromal cells (ST), experiencing progesterone regulated …

The age at first calving has a great economic impact on the beef cattle system and calving at
24 months is an objective of selection for a more efficient herd. However, an age at first …

Simple Summary Cows are one of the oldest livestock that are bred for both meat and milk.
There are only two local cow breeds in Latvia—Latvian Brown and Latvian Blue—which …