Size Does Matter: Litter Size Strongly Determines Adult Metabolism in Rodents [PDF]
Cell Metabolism, 2020 In this essay, we highlight how litter size in rodents is a strong determinant of neonatal growth and long-term metabolic health. Based on these effects, we strongly advise that scientific articles that utilize rodent models for obesity and metabolic research should include information on the litter sizes in the study to increase the data transparency ...
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Heterosis in the second and third generation affects litter size in a crossbreed mink (Neovison vison) population [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2014 Litter sizes in a cross between Brown and Black mink color types were observed through six generations. Litter size was significantly affected by yearly environmental variations.
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Correlated response in litter size components in rabbits selected for litter size variability [PDF]
Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 2017 SummaryA divergent selection experiment for the environmental variability of litter size (Ve) over seven generations was carried out in rabbits at the University Miguel Hernández of Elche. The Ve was estimated as the phenotypic variance within the female, after correcting for year‐season and parity‐lactation status. The aim of this study was to analyse
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Genetic and phenotypic time trends of litter size, piglet mortality, and birth weight in pigs
Frontiers in Animal Science, 2023 IntroductionLitter size in pigs has increased steadily since 1990. Because of unfavorable genetic correlations with piglet mortality, breeding goals should include survival traits next to litter size.
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Prolificacy and Its Relationship with Age, Body Weight, Parity, Previous Litter Size and Body Linear Type Traits in Meat-type Goats [PDF]
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014 Data on age and body weight at breeding, parity, previous litter size, days open and some descriptive body linear traits from 389 meat-type, prolific Black Bengal goats in Tripura State of India, were collected for 3 and 1/2 years (2007 to 2010) and ...
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Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-Ilmu Peternakan, 2023 Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui profil induk kambing Kejobong berdasarkan paritas, litter size, dan mortalitas dan hubungan antara paritas dengan littersize dan daya hidup anak di Kecamatan Kejobong, Kabupaten Purbalingga tepatnya Kelompok Tani
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Hypomethylation in the promoter region of ZPBP as a potential litter size indicator in Berkshire pigs [PDF]
Archives Animal Breeding, 2019 In pigs, litter size is typically defined as the total number of piglets born (TNB) or the number of piglets born alive (NBA). Increasing pig litter size is of great economic interest as a means to increase productivity.
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Identifying early indicator traits for sow longevity using a linear-threshold model in Thai Large White and Landrace females [PDF]
Animal Bioscience, 2021 Objective The objective of the study was to investigate the possibility of utilizing an early litter size trait as an indirect selection trait for longevity and to estimate genetic parameters between sow stayability and litter size at different parities ...
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Litter Windrows in the South-East Coast of the Bay of Biscay: An Ocean Process Enabling Effective Active Fishing for Litter [PDF]
, 2020 Large scale convergence regions of floating marine litter are commonly observed in semi-enclosed seas as the Bay of Biscay. However, clean-up activities on such accumulation regions are limited by the spread of the large-size floating litter on the sea ...
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Direct Evidence on the Contribution of a Missense Mutation in GDF9 to Variation in Ovulation Rate of Finnsheep [PDF]
, 2014 peer-reviewedThe Finnish Landrace (Finnsheep) is a well known high-prolificacy sheep breed and has been used in many countries as a source of genetic material to increase fecundity of local breeds.
Hanrahan, James P, Mullen, Michael P.
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