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Seasonal Variability in Transcript Expression of Type I and Type II Keratins in Wool Follicles of Lustrous Fleece-Producing Magra Sheep

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2023
Magra sheep reared around the Bikaner area of Rajasthan, India is famous for producing lustrous fleece as compared to other wool-producing native sheep breeds.
Rajiv Kumar, Amar S Meena, Ashish Chopra, Ajay Kumar, Ramesh C Sharma, Arun Kumar   +5 more
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Whole-genome resequencing of wild and domestic sheep identifies genes associated with morphological and agronomic traits

Nature Communications, 2020
Understanding the genetic changes underlying phenotypic variation in sheep (Ovis aries) may facilitate our efforts towards further improvement. Here, we report the deep resequencing of 248 sheep including the wild ancestor (O. orientalis), landraces, and
Xin Li, Ji Yang, M. Shen, Xing-Long Xie, Guang-Jian Liu, Ya-xi Xu, Feng-Hua Lv, Hua Yang, Yong-lin Yang, Chang-Bin Liu, P. Zhou, Peng-Cheng Wan, Yun-sheng Zhang, Lei Gao, Jingquan Yang, Wen-hui Pi, Yan-Ling Ren, Zhi-qiang Shen, Feng Wang, Juan Deng, Songsong Xu, Hosein Salehian-Dehkordi, Eer Hehua, A. Esmailizadeh, Mostafa Dehghani-Qanatqestani, Ondřej Štěpánek, C. Weimann, Georg Erhardt, A. Amane, J. Mwacharo, Jianlin Han, O. Hanotte, J. Lenstra, J. Kantanen, D. Coltman, J. Kijas, M. Bruford, K. Periasamy, Xin-Hua Wang, Menghua Li   +39 more
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Chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic profiles of sheep pituitary function associated with fecundity. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Background The pituitary gland, a central regulator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis, plays a pivotal role in reproductive efficiency by precisely controlling the secretion of gonadotropins, including follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH ...
Li S, Zhao B, Chen P, Cai Y, Xu H, Yan C, Wang F, Zhang Y.   +7 more
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Removal of Basic Violet from Wool Dyeing Effluent Using Nanoparticles

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
In the reported study, nano silica and nano clay were used to remove the residual color from effluent generated during the dyeing of wool fabric with basic violet.
Seiko Jose, Nachimuthu Shanmugam, Ajay Kumar, Sekar Das   +3 more
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Quality Improvement of Dumba Fleece Using Dehairing Technique and Value Addition of Recovered Wool

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
The wool of Dumba fleece is an admixture of fine wool and coarse hairy fibers. (Tomer, ) The use of the slow speed carding machinerecovers fine wool fibers accounts 19.6% of fleece weight.
Ajay Kumar, Dinesh Babu Shakyawar, Nehru Lal Meena, Syed Mohammed Khursheed Naqvi   +3 more
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The Comparison of Fatty Acid Composition and Lipid Quality Indices in Hard Cow, Sheep, and Goat Cheeses

Foods, 2020
This study aimed to evaluate the fatty acid composition, including the contents, of conjugated linoleic acid cis9trans11 C18:2 (CLA) and trans C18:1 and C18:2 isomers in hard cow, sheep, and goat cheeses found on the Polish market and to compare lipid ...
B. Paszczyk, Joanna Łuczyńska
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Objective Evaluation of Luster (Gloss 60 degrees) of Different Indian Wools

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
Luster for a fiber/fabric system is a phenomenon to the reflectance of incident light to the surface, addressed as its shine or gloss. Presently, objective evaluation of the shine for straight hair (human hair) can be quantified through Goniophotometer ...
Ajay Kumar, D.B. Shakyawar, Rajiv Kumar, A.S. Meena, N.L. Meena, Ashish Chopra   +5 more
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On the origin of European sheep as revealed by the diversity of the Balkan breeds and by optimizing population-genetic analysis tools

Genetics Selection Evolution, 2020
Background In the Neolithic, domestic sheep migrated into Europe and subsequently spread in westerly and northwesterly directions. Reconstruction of these migrations and subsequent genetic events requires a more detailed characterization of the current ...
E. Ciani, S. Mastrangelo, A. Da Silva, F. Marroni, M. Ferenčaković, P. Ajmone-Marsan, H. Baird, M. Barbato, L. Colli, Chiara Delvento, T. Dovenski, G. Gorjanc, S. Hall, A. Hoda, Meng-Hua Li, B. Marković, J. McEwan, M. Moradi, O. Ruiz-Larrañaga, D. Ružić-Muslić, Dragica Šalamon, M. Simčič, Ondřej Štěpánek, I. Curik, V. Cubric-Curik, J. Lenstra   +25 more
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Methane emission, nutrient utilization, microbial protein synthesis and growth performance in finisher lambs fed complete feed blocks containing phytochemical-rich forages of semi-arid region

Carbon Management, 2020
Tree leaves of Ailanthus excelsa, Ziziphus nummularia and Prosopis cineraria were fed in complete feed block (CFB) to 36 weaner (91 d) lambs distributed equally (20.6 ± 0.55 kg) in three groups (T1, T2 and T3). The CFB of T1 consisted of 40% A.
Randhir Singh Bhatt, Artabandhu Sahoo, Lalit Kumar Soni, Priya Sharma   +3 more
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Experimental inoculation of chicken broilers with C. gallinacea strain 15-56/1

Scientific Reports, 2021
Chlamydia gallinacea is one of the new Chlamydia species, encountered predominantly in birds and occasionally in cattle, and its dissemination, pathogenicity and zoonotic potential have not yet been fully elucidated.
Monika Szymańska-Czerwińska, Agnieszka Jodełko, Kinga Zaręba-Marchewka, Krzysztof Niemczuk   +3 more
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