Potential of water buffalo in world agriculture: challenges and opportunities

HA El Debaky, NA Kutchy, A Ul-Husna… - Applied Animal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this review was to provide a summary of the current agriculture
determinants of economically important traits, and solutions for challenges in water buffalo …

[HTML][HTML] Safe and sustainable traditional production: the water buffalo in Asia

GK Deb, TN Nahar, PG Duran… - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is considered an efficient converter of poor quality
forages into high quality milk and meat. This species is ubiquitous, with prevalence though …

Prospecting major genes in dairy buffaloes

GMF De Camargo, RR Aspilcueta-Borquis, MRS Fortes… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Asian buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) have an important socio-economic
role. The majority of the population is situated in developing countries. Due to the scarce …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies to identify quantitative trait loci affecting milk production traits in water buffalo

JJ Liu, AX Liang, G Campanile, G Plastow… - Journal of dairy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Water buffalo is the second largest resource of milk supply around the world, and it is well
known for its distinctive milk quality in terms of fat, protein, lactose, vitamin, and mineral …

Opportunities and challenges for improving the productivity of swamp buffaloes in Southeastern Asia

PS Pineda, EB Flores, JRV Herrera, WY Low - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The swamp buffalo is a domesticated animal commonly found in Southeast Asia. It is a
highly valued agricultural animal for smallholders, but the production of this species has …

Contaminants in Foods of Animal Origin in Cameroon: A One Health Vision for Risk Management “from Farm to Fork

GB Pouokam, BUS Foudjo, C Samuel… - Frontiers in Public …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Foods of animal origin represent an important share in the diet of Cameroonian populations.
Cameroon is known to be a food basket in the west and central Africa sub-region, and an …

De Novo Transcriptome Assembly of the Chinese Swamp Buffalo by RNA Sequencing and SSR Marker Discovery

T Deng, C Pang, X Lu, P Zhu, A Duan, Z Tan, J Huang… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The Chinese swamp buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) is vital to the lives of small farmers and has
tremendous economic importance. However, a lack of genomic information has hampered …

Genome-wide association study for milk production in Egyptian buffalo

N El-Halawany, H Abdel-Shafy, AS Abd-El-Monsif… - Livestock Science, 2017 - Elsevier
With the aim of characterizing the genetic background of Egyptian buffalo and identifying
genomic regions and potential causative mutations associated with milk yield, we performed …

AffyPipe: an open-source pipeline for Affymetrix Axiom genotyping workflow

EL Nicolazzi, D Iamartino, JL Williams - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Affymetrix Axiom genotyping standard and 'best practice'workflow for Linux and
Mac users consists of three stand-alone executable programs (Affymetrix Power Tools) and …

Study of whole genome linkage disequilibrium patterns of Iranian water buffalo breeds using the Axiom Buffalo Genotyping 90K Array

M Mokhber, MM Shahrbabak, M Sadeghi… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Accuracy of genome-wide association studies, and the successful implementation of
genomic selection depends on the level of linkage disequilibrium (LD) across the genome …