Increasing milk production is one of the key concerns in animal production. Traditional
breeding has gotten limited achievement in the improvement of milk production because of …

Mastitis, the most frequent disease in dairy cattle. Resistance to mastitis is a complex,
polygenic trait controlled by several genes, each with small effects. Genome-wide …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on high throughput SNP genotyping
technologies open a broad avenue for exploring genes associated with milk production traits …

Background Contemporary dairy breeding goals have broadened to include, along with milk
production traits, a number of non-production-related traits in an effort to improve the overall …

Abstract Background Recently, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has rapidly emerged as a major
transcriptome profiling system. Elucidation of the bovine mammary gland transcriptome by …

The quantity of milk and milk fat and proteins are particularly important traits in dairy
livestock. However, little is known about the regions of the genome that influence these traits …

Background Milk production is an economically important sector of global agriculture. Much
attention has been paid to the identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with …

We genotyped 58 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP s) in 25 candidate genes in about
800 Italian Holstein sires. Fifty‐six (minor allele frequency> 0.02) were used to evaluate their …

Isolation of amplifiable genomic DNA is a prerequisite for the genetic assessment of
diseases and disease susceptibility in farm animals. Milk somatic cells are a practical …

Decrease in fertility and conception rates is a major cause of economic loss and cow culling
in dairy herds. Conception rate is the product of fertilization rate and embryonic survival rate …