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Investigation of Copy Number Variations (CNVs) of the Goat PPP3CA Gene and Their Effect on Litter Size and Semen Quality

Animals, 2022
Copy number variations (CNVs) have many forms of variation structure, and they play an important role in the research of variety diversity, biological evolution and disease correlation.
Yangyang Bai, Taiyuan Zhang, Nuan Liu, Congliang Wang, Zhengang Guo, Chuanying Pan, Haijing Zhu, Xianyong Lan   +7 more
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Accuracy of Genomic Selection for Important Economic Traits of Cashmere and Meat Goats Assessed by Simulation Study

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Genomic selection in plants and animals has become a standard tool for breeding because of the advantages of high accuracy and short generation intervals. Implementation of this technology is hindered by the high cost of genotyping and other factors. The
Xiaochun Yan, Tao Zhang, Tao Zhang, Lichun Liu, Yongsheng Yu, Guang Yang, Yaqian Han, Gao Gong, Fenghong Wang, Lei Zhang, Hongfu Liu, Wenze Li, Xiaomin Yan, Haoyu Mao, Yaming Li, Chen Du, Jinquan Li, Jinquan Li, Jinquan Li, Yanjun Zhang, Ruijun Wang, Qi Lv, Zhixin Wang, Jiaxin Zhang, Zhihong Liu, Zhiying Wang, Rui Su   +26 more
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Detection of insertion/deletions (indels) of the ATBF1 gene and their effects on growth-related traits in three indigenous goat breeds [PDF]

Archives Animal Breeding, 2018
The AT motif-binding factor (ATBF1), also known as zinc finger homeobox 3 (ZFXH3), is necessary for activating the POU1F1 gene; thus, the ATBF1 gene greatly affects the grow traits in animals.
Z. Wei, Z. Wei, K. Wang, K. Wang, Y. Hui, H. Yan, H. Yan, H. Yan, H. Zhu, H. Zhu, L. Qu, L. Qu, C. Pan, H. Chen, X. Lan   +14 more
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Potential of multi-species livestock farming to improve the sustainability of livestock farms: A review. [PDF]

, 2020
Diversified farming systems are proposed as a major mechanism to address the many sustainability issues of today's agriculture. Multi-species livestock farming, i.e.
Barth, Kerstin, Benoit, Marc, Brock, Christopher, Destruel, Marie, Dumont, Bertrand, Grillot, Myriam, Hübner, Severin, Magne, Marie-Angélina, Martin, Guillaume, Moerman, Marie, Mosnier, Claire, Parsons, David, Primi, Riccardo, Ronchi, Bruno, Schanz, Lisa, Steinmetz, Lucille, Werne, Steffen, Winckler, Christoph   +17 more
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Detection of rs665862918 (15-bp Indel) of the HIAT1 Gene and its Strong Genetic Effects on Growth Traits in Goats

Animals, 2020
The hippocampus abundant transcript 1 (HIAT1) gene, which was detected by the genome-wide identification of selective sweeps among elite goat breeds and water buffalo, is proposed to play an important role in meat characteristics.
Jiayang Gao, Xiaoyue Song, Hui Wu, Qi Tang, Zhenyu Wei, Xinyu Wang, Xianyong Lan, Bao Zhang   +7 more
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Genomic prediction accuracy for five economically important traits in cashmere goats across single-nucleotide polymorphism densities and methods

Animal
The production and quality improvement of cashmere from Inner Mongolia’s cashmere goats face numerous challenges, including high costs associated with measuring cashmere diameter and the low accuracy of cashmere yield measurements. Genetic improvement of
Y. Zhang, M. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Yuan, X. Wang, Y. Rong, Y. Qi, J. Li, Y. Hu, F. Shang, Z. Wang, R. Su, R. Wang   +12 more
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Sex-specific effects of guanosine monophosphate synthase and steroid receptor coactivator gene polymorphisms on cashmere fineness and production traits in Liaoning Cashmere goats [PDF]

Veterinary World
Background and Aim: The Liaoning Cashmere goat (LCG) is a dual-purpose breed of major economic importance in China, valued for its high cashmere yield and meat quality. Cashmere fineness (CF) remains a primary target for genetic improvement because fiber
Qingyu Yuan, Qiying Zhan, Ran Duan, Yichao Zhao, Hao Lin, Shuaitong Li, Weihang Hong, Hua Ma, Lingchao Kong, Wangshu Li, Haoran Wang, Xiaochen Kou, Dakun LYU, Yunlong Guo, Jiamei Liang, Zeying Wang   +15 more
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RNA-seq reveals transcriptome changes in goats following myostatin gene knockout. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Myostatin (MSTN) is a powerful negative regulator of skeletal muscle mass in mammalian species that is primarily expressed in skeletal muscles, and mutations of its encoding gene can result in the double-muscling trait.
Lamei Wang, Bei Cai, Shiwei Zhou, Haijing Zhu, Lei Qu, Xiaolong Wang, Yulin Chen   +6 more
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Association analysis for SNPs of BAAT and COL1A1 genes with cashmere production performance and other production traits in Liaoning cashmere goats

Animal Biotechnology, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the polymorphism of bile acid-CoA: amino acid N-acyltransferase (BAAT) and collagen type I alpha 1 chain (COL1A1) genes and the production performance of Liaoning Cashmere goat (LCG). The potential single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of LCG were detected by sequence comparison of BAAT and ...
Weidong, Cai, Yanan, Xu, Zhixian, Bai, Guangyu, Lin, Lingling, Wang, Xingtang, Dou, Di, Han, Zhanhong, Wang, Jiaming, Wang, Xinjiang, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Yuting, Qin, Ming, Gu, Yinggang, Sun, Yanzhi, Wu, Rui, Chen, Zeying, Wang   +16 more
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A consideration of resistance and tolerance for ruminant nematode infections [PDF]

, 2012
Debates on the relative merits of resistance (the ability of the host to control the parasite lifecycle) and tolerance (the net impact of infection on host performance) are often lively and unhindered by data or evidence.
Bishop, Stephen C
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