Simple Summary During the present decade, highly selected caprine farming has increased
in popularity due to the hardiness and adaptability inherent to goats. Recent advances in …

Simple Summary Genetic evaluations and the selection of breeding animals require the
accurate estimation of genetic parameters for economically important traits. As a result, dairy …

Simple Summary Although the casein complex has been reported to condition economically
important traits in dairy species, information in goats is scarce. The analysis of haplotypic …

The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of non-genetic factors on milk yield,
its composition (fat, protein, dry matter and lactose) and the count of somatic cells in …

Assessing dominance and additive effects of casein complex single-nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs)(αS1, αS2, β, and κ casein), and their epistatic relationships may …

Improving knowledge on the causative polymorphisms or genes regulating the expression of
milk quantitative and qualitative traits and their interconnections plays a major role in dairy …

Seven non-linear growth models were compared in the Andalusian turkey, an endangered
native breed. To this aim, turkeys were weekly weighted until they reached 35 weeks. The …

Semi-hard pressed goat's cheese, a traditional matured cheese in Andalusia, has a residual
lactose content that may affect people with intolerance to that carbohydrate. Nowadays …

Goat milk casein proteins (αS1, αS2, β and κ) are encoded by four loci (CSN1S1, CSN1S2,
CSN2 and CSN3, respectively) clustered within 250 kb in chromosome 6. In this study, 159 …

SPSS model syntax was defined and used to evaluate the individual performance of 49
linear and non-linear models to fit the lactation curve of 159 Murciano-Granadina goats …