Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2013 In the present study the polymorphism of the myocyte enhancer factor 2D (MEF2D) gene was analyzed as a genetic marker candidate for carcass traits in Polish Holstein-Friesian cattle.
E. Juszczuk-Kubiak +2 more
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Animal, 2017 The traditional beef production in the South of Portugal is based on a discontinuous growth (DG) system that requires lower external inputs and could enhance meat quality and financial returns to cattle producers.
P. Costa +10 more
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Lessons Learned: Acting as Guardian/Special Master in the Bad Newz Kennels Case [PDF]
, 2008 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia appointed Rebecca Huss as the guardian/special master of the pit bulls that were the subject of the case against Michael Vick relating to dog fighting.
Huss, Rebecca J.
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Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Release of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus via Export of Bull Semen from Israel [PDF]
, 2017 Various foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus strains circulate in the Middle East, causing frequent episodes of FMD outbreaks among Israeli livestock. Since the virus is highly resistant in semen, artificial insemination with contaminated bull semen may ...
Aidaros +40 more
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SCREENING OF BREEDING BULLS OF DIFFERENT BREEDS THROUGH KARYOTYPING [PDF]
Pakistan Veterinary Journal, 2004 A study of chromosomal analysis for 200 breeding bulls of different breeds of cattle (Jersey, Holstein Friesian, Sahiwal and Cross-bred) and Nili-Ravi buffalo, maintained at Semen Production Unit, Qadirabad and Livestock Experiment Station, Bhunikey ...
I. Ahmad, K. Javed1 and A. Sattar
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Carcass characteristics and meat quality of bulls and steers slaughtered at two different ages
, 2017 This study was conducted to evaluate animal performance, carcase characteristics and meat quality of young bulls and steers (Charolais × Holstein-Friesian), fattened until 15 and 18 months of age. One half of 40 young bulls were castrated at 2 or 3 weeks
Z. Nogalski +5 more
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Animal Transport: Developing optimum animal handling procedures and effective transport strategies in the food production chain to improve animal welfare and food quality [PDF]
, 2007 End of project reportA series of studies were performed to investigate the effect of transport on liveweight, physiological and haematological responses of cattle. The first study was carried out over a 6 week period in the Spring of 2004.
Earley, Bernadette +2 more
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Association of heat shock protein 70 with motility of frozen-thawed sperm in bulls.
, 2016 Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) is considered as a gene which affects semen quality traits. The pre - sent study attempted to investigate the relationship between the HSP70 expression level and motility of bull sperm during the process of freezing-thawing.
X. G. Zhang +5 more
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Evaluation of sperm DNA damage in bulls by TUNEL assay as a parameter of semen quality
Journal of reproduction and development, 2015 Sperm DNA damage affects the conception rate resulting from human assisted reproduction technology. The objective of this study was to adapt the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay to provide a quality ...
K. Takeda +5 more
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Evaluation of the Progeny of Beef Sires Differing in Genetic Merit [PDF]
, 2005 End of project reportThe Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) publishes breeding values (BVs) for beef bulls. Historically, BVs were expressed in index form relative to the base population.
Diskin, Michael G., Keane, Michael G.
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