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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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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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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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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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Small ruminant production in dryland regions of India: Status, challenges and opportunities

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021
Small ruminants are important components of smallholder production systems in dry regions of the country and require technological transformation for bringing the farmers out of the vicious cycle of poverty.
ARUN KUMAR, S S MISRA, I S CHAUHAN, G R GOWANE, A K SHINDE   +4 more
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Keratin Gene Expression Differences in Wool Follicles and Sequence Diversity of High Glycine-Tyrosine Keratin-Associated Proteins (Kaps) in Magra Sheep of India

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2020
Wool fibers consist of proteins with majority belongs to keratin family. Longitudinally arrayed keratin intermediate filaments constitute a matrix surrounded by keratin-associated proteins (KAPs).
Rajiv Kumar, A S Meena, Ashish Chopra, Arun Kumar   +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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Using imputed whole-genome sequence data to improve the accuracy of genomic prediction for parasite resistance in Australian sheep

Genetics Selection Evolution, 2019
Background This study aimed at (1) comparing the accuracies of genomic prediction for parasite resistance in sheep based on whole-genome sequence (WGS) data to those based on 50k and high-density (HD) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels; (2 ...
Mohammad Al Kalaldeh, John Gibson, Naomi Duijvesteijn, Hans D. Daetwyler, Iona MacLeod, Nasir Moghaddar, Sang Hong Lee, Julius H. J. van der Werf   +7 more
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A global analysis of CNVs in Chinese indigenous fine-wool sheep populations using whole-genome resequencing

BMC Genomics, 2021
Background Copy number variation (CNV) is an important source of genetic variation that has a significant influence on phenotypic diversity, economically important traits and the evolution of livestock species.
Chao Yuan, Zengkui Lu, Tingting Guo, Yaojing Yue, Xijun Wang, Tianxiang Wang, Yajun Zhang, Fujun Hou, Chune Niu, Xiaopin Sun, Hongchang Zhao, Shaohua Zhu, Jianbin Liu, Bohui Yang   +13 more
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