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 …

Considering the increasing challenges imposed by climate change and the need to improve
animal welfare, breeding more resilient animals capable of better coping with environmental …

Breeding more resilient animals will benefit the dairy cattle industry in the long term,
especially as global climate changes become more severe. Previous studies have reported …

Understanding and assessing dairy cattle behavior is critical for developing sustainable
breeding programs and management practices. The behavior of individual animals can …

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of age at first calving (AFC) using 813,114 first
lactation Holstein cows and 75,524 SNPs identified 2063 additive effects and 29 dominance …

Following a significant increase in herd and farm sizes after the removal of milk quotas in
Europe, the past 10 years have seen a slight yet steady decline in the population of cattle …

Body conformation traits are directly associated with longevity, fertility, health, and
workability in dairy cows and have been under direct genetic selection for many decades in …

Simple Summary Ram semen traits including volume, gross motility, concentration, and
percent post-thaw motility are routinely assessed prior to use in artificial breeding programs …

The objective of the present study was to identify genomic regions influencing economic
traits in Murrah buffaloes using weighted single step Genome Wide Association Analysis …

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 …