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Agriculture, 2022 The volatility of meat prices affects the accessibility and even food security of some consumers in Turkey. This study analyses the prices of selected livestock and a major feed component, wheat, as well as the exchange rate of the domestic currency in ...
Faruk Urak +4 more
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Frontiers in GeneticsIntroductionIdentifying genomic regions under selection is the most challenging issue for improving important traits in animals. Few studies have focused on identifying genomic regions under selection in sheep.
Sadegh Taheri +2 more
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Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2019 Hybridization of domestic animal breeds with their wild relatives is a promising method for increasing the genetic diversity of farm animals. Resource populations derived from the hybridization of various breeds of domestic sheep with mouflon and argali ...
T. I. Bikchurina +5 more
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Scientific ReportsDue to the diverse climate in Iran, there has been an opportunity for the emergence of different domestic sheep breeds. On the other hand, two of the seven wild sheep species have settled in the broad areas of Iran.
Reza Khalkhali-Evrigh +4 more
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Risk of pathogen spillover to bighorn sheep from domestic sheep and goat flocks on private land
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) across North America have suffered population losses due to polymicrobial pneumonia typically initiated by spillover events of bacteria from domestic sheep and goats.
Laura M. Heinse +2 more
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Spatial Associations of Livestock Guardian Dogs and Domestic Sheep
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2019 Livestock guardian dogs (Canis lupus familiaris; LGDs) have been used for centuries to protect livestock, primarily domestic sheep (Ovis aries), from depredation by large carnivores.
Julie Young +2 more
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Genomic signatures of adaptive introgression from European mouflon into domestic sheep
Scientific Reports, 2017 Mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) became extinct from mainland Europe after the Neolithic, but remnant populations from the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia have been used for reintroductions across Europe since the 19th-century.
Mario Barbato +8 more
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Ivolginsk Xiongnu Fortress in Transbaikalia: archaeozoological research (based on excavations 2017)
Поволжская археология, 2020 The paper contains data on the archaeozoological collection from the Ivolginsk fortress located on the bank of the Selenga River in Ivolginsk depression (Transbaikalia). Research was performed on the materials of the 2017 excavations.
Klementiev Aleksey M. +3 more
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The First Mitogenome of the Cyprus Mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion): New Insights into the Phylogeny of the Genus Ovis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sheep are thought to have been one of the first livestock to be domesticated in the Near East, thus playing an important role in human history. The current whole mitochondrial genome phylogeny for the genus Ovis is based on: the five main domestic ...
Daria Sanna +12 more
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No silver bullet? Snow leopard prey selection in Mt. Kangchenjunga, Nepal
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In this study, we investigated the impact of domestic and wild prey availability on snow leopard prey preference in the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area of eastern Nepal—a region where small domestic livestock are absent and small wild ungulate prey are ...
Kamal Thapa +4 more
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