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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Background: Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) are important and widely distributed poultry in China. Researchers continue to pursue genetic selection for heavier quail. The intestinal microbiota plays a substantial role in growth promotion; however, the
Jing-E Ma +32 more
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The Journal of Poultry Science, 2013 Fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are members of lipid-binding proteins that participate in lipid uptake and intracellular transport. This study was designed to investigate the effects of the liver bile acid-binding protein (L-BABP) and the liver ...
Yufang Zhao +7 more
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Poultry Science, 2023 : Increasing evidence indicates that the gut microbiome plays an important role in host aging and sexual maturity. However, the gut microbial taxa associated with sexual maturity in quails are unknown.
Xinwei Xiong +8 more
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Identification of genome-wide SNP-SNP interactions associated with important traits in chicken
BMC Genomics, 2017 Background In addition to additive genetic effects, epistatic interactions can play key roles in the control of phenotypic variation of traits of interest.
Hui Zhang +7 more
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Poultry Science, 2023 : Adiponectin is a key hormone secreted by fat tissues that has multiple biological functions, including regulating the energy balance and reproductive system by binding to its receptors AdipoR1 and AdipoR2.
Chong Li +14 more
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A catalog of microbial genes and metagenome-assembled genomes from the quail gut microbiome
Poultry Science, 2023 : The gut microbiome plays an important role in quail feed efficiency, immunity, production, and even behavior. Gut microbial gene catalogs and reference genomes are important for understanding the quail gut microbiome.
Xinwei Xiong +10 more
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A mutation in PHKG1 causes high drip loss and low meat quality in Chinese Ningdu yellow chickens
Poultry Science, 2022 : With increasing societal development and the concurrent improvement in people's quality of life, meat consumption has gradually changed from a focus on “quantity” to “quality”.
Xinwei Xiong +10 more
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Infrastructures, 2020 Intelligent transportation system (ITS) has become a crucial section of transportation and traffic management systems in the past decades. As a result, transportation agencies keep improving the quality of transportation infrastructure management ...
Sylvester Inkoom +2 more
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