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Characteristics of Piglets Born by Two Highly Prolific Sow Hybrids

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
High piglet mortality constitutes a welfare challenge in Danish organic pig production with almost one in three piglets dying before weaning. Piglet characteristics such as birth weight, rectal temperature and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR ...
Sarah-Lina Aagaard Schild, Sarah-Lina Aagaard Schild, Leslie Foldager, Leslie Foldager, Lena Rangstrup-Christensen, Lene Juul Pedersen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling and Assessing Heat Transfer of Piglet Microclimates

AgriEngineering, 2021
High piglet pre-weaning mortality rates can be attributed to poor creep area microclimate resulting in negative productivity, welfare, and economic consequences.
Benjamin C. Smith, Brett C. Ramirez, Steven J. Hoff   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
wiley   +1 more source

Heritability of shoulder ulcers and genetic correlations with mean piglet weight and sow body condition

Animal, 2012
The objective of this paper was to estimate the heritability for shoulder ulcers and the genetic correlations between shoulder ulcers, mean piglet weight and sow body condition.
H. Lundgren, B. Zumbach, N. Lundeheim, K. Grandinson, O. Vangen, D. Olsen, L. Rydhmer   +6 more
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
wiley   +1 more source

Yeast Gcn2 retains activity following humanization of its auto‐phosphorylation region

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model to study Gcn2 activation and regulation is limited by the lack of antibodies detecting phosphorylated Gcn2. To overcome this, we engineered Gcn2‐HsC, a yeast Gcn2 variant recognizable by commercial anti‐human phospho‐GCN2 antibodies.
Reuben A. Anderson, Anja H. Schiemann, Evelyn Sattlegger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piglet survival from birth to weaning: A narrative review of associated sow and piglet characteristics and environmental factors

Letters in Animal Biology
Pre-weaning piglet mortality continues to pose a serious challenge to pig producers, with detrimental effects on animal health, welfare, performance, and overall farm success.
Rivoningo N. Mabunda, Mamokoma C. Modiba, Ayodeji P. Idowu, Khathutshelo A. Nephawe , Takalani J. Mpofu   +4 more
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Piglet Morphology: Indicators of Neonatal Viability?

Animals, 2022
The morphological measures, crown-to-rump length (CR), and abdominal circumference (AC) have been suggested to be as good, if not better, than birth weight for predicting piglet performance.
Bryony S. Tucker, Kiro R. Petrovski, Jessica R. Craig, Rebecca S. Morrison, Robert J. Smits, Roy N. Kirkwood   +5 more
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Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy due to Biallelic Pathogenic Variants in PIGM

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective PIGM encodes a critical enzyme in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchor biosynthesis pathway. While promoter‐region mutations in PIGM have been associated with a relatively mild phenotype characterized by portal vein thrombosis and absence seizures, recent evidence suggests that coding‐region mutations result in a more severe
Júlia Sala‐Coromina, Anna Marcé‐Grau, Barbara Masotto, Marta Codina, Lamia BenJemaa, Yasmina Elaribi, Mónica Martinez‐Gallo, Roger Colobran, Angel Sanchez‐Montañez, Irene Valenzuela, Yoshiko Murakami, Alfons Macaya   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

U.S. swine producers’ preferences and willingness to pay for precision livestock farming technologies: A case study on reducing piglet crushing by sows

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Sow-induced piglet crushing remains a persistent welfare and productivity issue in swine production. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies promise to mitigate this problem by automating piglet crushing detection and enabling timely interventions.
B.E. Akinyemi, J.M. Siegford, S.P. Turner, F. Akaichi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source