An appropriate genetic approach for improving reproductive traits in crossbred Thai–Holstein cattle under heat stress conditions

A Fathoni, W Boonkum, V Chankitisakul… - Veterinary …, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Early and late determinants of puberty in ruminants and the role of nutrition

AH Duittoz, DA Kenny - animal, 2023 - Elsevier
This article reviews the scientific literature on puberty with a focus on ruminants and draws
inference, where appropriate, from recent findings in transgenic mouse models and human …

Genetic parameters for various semen production and quality traits and indicators of male and female reproductive performance in Nellore cattle

FE Carvalho, JBS Ferraz, VB Pedrosa, EC Matos… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Given the economic relevance of fertility and reproductive traits for the beef
cattle industry, investigating their genetic background and developing effective breeding …

[HTML][HTML] Upgrading the fixed-time artificial insemination (FTAI) protocol in Romanian buffaloes

SG Ciornei, P Roşca - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The present study describes the challenges of assisted reproduction in Romanian buffaloes
while increasing the efficacy of artificial insemination by choosing the most suitable method …

SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF SPERM FILTRATION TECHNIQUES AND ANTIOXIDANTS ADDED TO EXTENDER OF IRAQI BUFFALO SEMEN

SN Alwaeli, SM Eidan - IRAQI JOURNAL OF …, 2024 - jcoagri.uobaghdad.edu.iq
This study investigated the synergistic effect of glass wool and sephadex sperm filtration
techniques on improving the low semen quality of buffalo bulls with or without antioxidants …

Monitoring of health status, performance and transcript abundance of some genes in dairy heifers produced by embryo transfer or artificial insemination

RL Abdel Aziz, MM Hussein, H El‐Said… - … in Domestic Animals, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of multiple ovulation and embryo transfer (MOET) technology in the dairy cattle
industry has increased dramatically in recent decades for the production of offspring from …

Genetic improvement of economic traits in Murrah buffalo using significant SNPs from genome-wide association study

L George, R Alex, N Sukhija, K Jaglan, V Vohra… - Tropical Animal Health …, 2023 - Springer
GWAS helps to identify QTL and candidate genes of specific traits. Buffalo breeding has
primarily focused on milk production, but its negative correlation with reproduction traits …

Genetic parameters and genome-wide association for milk production traits and somatic cell score in different lactation stages of Shanghai Holstein population

D Liu, Z Xu, W Zhao, S Wang, T Li, K Zhu, G Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic parameters and genetic architectures of
six milk production traits in the Shanghai Holstein population. The data used to estimate the …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic parameters for reproductive traits in the Italian Mediterranean buffalo using milk yield as a correlated trait

M Gómez-Carpio, A Cesarani, G Zullo, R Cimmino… - Journal of Dairy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Until now, the genetic evaluation of the Italian Mediterranean Buffalo has been mainly
focused on production traits. However, female fertility affects the efficiency of the dairy …

Exploring molecular dynamic indicators associated with reproductive performance of Bos indicus cattle in blood plasma samples through data-independent …

MJ Devadasan, KP Ramesha, P Ramesh… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving reproductive performance of cattle is of paramount importance for sustainable
dairy farming. Poor reproduction performance (RP) hinders the genetic improvement of …