Footrot is a contagious foot disease mainly affecting sheep. It is caused by the Gram-
negative anaerobic bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus. Warm, wet environmental conditions …

Simple Summary Despite improvements in modern livestock management, intensification of
farming systems has led to the emergence of infectious and husbandry-related health and …

Background This is the first study based on a genome-wide association approach that
investigates the links between ovine footrot scores and molecular polymorphisms in Texel …

The ovine MHC class IIa is known to consist of six to eight loci located in close proximity on
chromosome 20, forming haplotypes that are typically inherited without recombination. Here …

The objective of the study was twofold:(i) to review the genetics of production and resilience
traits of indigenous Greek small ruminant breeds as well as the evolution of national …

Ovine footrot is an infectious disease with important contributions from Dichelobacter
nodosus and Fusobacterium necrophorum. Footrot is characterized by separation of the …

Simple Summary Foot-related lameness is one of the most significant welfare issues in farm
animals. Contrary to dairy cows and meat sheep breeds, epizootiological data on foot …

Objectives of the study were to present descriptive epidemiological characteristics of
lameness in intensively and semi-intensively reared flocks of Chios-breed dairy sheep in …

The swine leukocyte antigens (SLAs) are the multigene families related to immune
responses. Little is known about the effect of the DRA gene on diarrheal disease. This study …

The present study was designed to explore polymorphisms of Ovar-DRB1 and BMC5221
genes for identifying resistant animals to footrot in Ghezel sheep. In this experiment, a small …