Breeding for higher prolificacy may improve lamb production efficiency in semi-intensive and
intensive sheep-production systems. Crossbreeding of native breeds with exotic prolific …

Harmful alleles can be under balancing selection due to an interplay of artificial selection for
the variant in heterozygotes and purifying selection against the variant in homozygotes …

The Qira black sheep and the Hetian sheep are two local breeds in the Northwest of China,
which are characterized by high-fecundity and low-fecundity breed respectively. The …

Litter size, which is a complex economic trait in sheep, is affected by polygenes. Hu sheep
are a prolific native breed in China and also an ideal resource for studying the genetic …

1Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan,
Iran 2Department of Livestock and Aquaculture Biotechnology, Agricultural Biotechnology …

The Tibetan cashmere goat is a prolific goat breed in China. In sheep breeds, natural
mutations have demonstrated that the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) super family …

The objective of this study was to investigate association between FecGH-GDF-9 gene
polymorphism and litter size in Hamdani fat-tailed sheep. The genomic DNA was extracted …

Goat farming in Bangladesh is primarily centred on indigenous Black Bengal goat, a highly
prolific breed. Searching for genetic markers associated with prolificacy in this breed is vital …

Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) family, exert plays a key role in embryonic
development, cell proliferation, cell migration, angiogenesis and reproduction. Related …

The Markhoz is a local goat breed in the Kurdistan region of Iran. The mohair obtained from
these animals plays an important cultural role and is used for making local clothes in the …