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Brain Mass and Encephalization Quotients in the Domestic Industrial Pig (Sus scrofa) [PDF]
, 2016 open6siIn the present study we examined the brain of fetal, newborn, and adult pigs raised for meat production. The fresh and formalin-fixed weights of the brain have been recorded and used, together with body weight, to calculate the Encephalization ...
Andrea Pirone +5 more
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Paternal Origins and Migratory Episodes of Domestic Sheep [PDF]
Current Biology, 2020 The domestication and subsequent global dispersal of livestock are crucial events in human history, but the migratory episodes during the history of livestock remain poorly documented [1-3]. Here, we first developed a set of 493 novel ovine SNPs of the male-specific region of Y chromosome (MSY) by genome mapping.
EEr Hehua +53 more
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Linkage Disequilibrium in Domestic Sheep [PDF]
Genetics, 2002 Abstract The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the number of livestock QTL mapping studies. The next challenge awaiting livestock geneticists is to determine the actual genes responsible for variation of economically important traits.
McRae, AF +5 more
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Spillover of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus from Domestic to Wild Ruminants in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania [PDF]
, 2015 We tested wildlife inhabiting areas near domestic livestock, pastures, and water sources in the Ngorongoro district in the Serengeti ecosystem of northern Tanzania and found 63% seropositivity for peste des petits ruminants virus. Sequencing of the viral
Eblate, E +9 more
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High prevalence of Rickettsia africae variants in Amblyomma variegatum ticks from domestic mammals in rural western Kenya: implications for human health [PDF]
, 2014 Tick-borne spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses are emerging human diseases caused by obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacteria of the genus Rickettsia.
Ade, Fredrick +13 more
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Kobuvirus in Domestic Sheep, Hungary
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 To the Editor: Picornaviruses (family Picornaviridae) are small, nonenveloped viruses with single-stranded, positive-sense genomic RNA. They are divided into 12 genera: Enterovirus, Aphthovirus, Cardiovirus, Hepatovirus, Parechovirus, Erbovirus, Teschovirus, Sapelovirus, Senecavirus, Tremovirus, Avihepatovirus, and Kobuvirus.
Gábor Reuter +3 more
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Genomic signatures of adaptive introgression from European mouflon into domestic sheep [PDF]
, 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.
Barbato, Mario +8 more
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Convergent genomic signatures of domestication in sheep and goats [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 AbstractThe evolutionary basis of domestication has been a longstanding question and its genetic architecture is becoming more tractable as more domestic species become genome-enabled. Before becoming established worldwide, sheep and goats were domesticated in the fertile crescent 10,500 years before present (YBP) where their wild relatives remain ...
Gwenola Tosser-Klopp +36 more
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"So bigge as bigge may be": tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220-1900) [PDF]
, 2013 This study presents the analysis of 7966 individual cattle, sheep, pig and domestic hen bone measurements from 105 sites excavated in London dating to the period AD 1220–1900. Multiple episodes of size change are identified, although the speed and timing
Holmes, Matilda +2 more
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Executive Decision-Making in the Domestic Sheep
PLoS ONE, 2011 Two new large animal models of Huntington's disease (HD) have been developed recently, an old world monkey (macaque) and a sheep. Macaques, with their large brains and complex repertoire of behaviors are the 'gold-standard' laboratory animals for testing cognitive function, but there are many practical and ethical issues that must be resolved before HD
Morton, A Jennifer, Avanzo, Laura
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