Adenaike, A. S. Peters, S. O. Ogundero, A. E. Wonodi, J. O. Ikeobi, C. O. N.
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Tropical Animal Health and Production
Social interactions among chickens can have a great unfavourable effect on economic returns in a poultry farm. The purpose of this study was to use four models to examine the influence of social genetic influences on the variation in body weight of Nigerian indigenous chickens. Sex was treated as the fixed effect within the models. Direct additive ...
Ouchene-Khelifi, Nadjet Amina Ouchene, Nassim Lafri, Mohamed
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Bulletin of the National Research Centre
BackgroundGoats, often associated with sheep, are a vital part of the national economy in many countries around the world, and goat farming contributes significantly to the family economy, sustainable livelihoods and poverty reduction. In order to study the goat farming system in Algeria, this study, which started between September 2012 and June 20...
Takeshima, Ryoma Ogiso-Tanaka, Eri Yasui, Yasuo Matsui, Katsuhiro
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BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundCommon buckwheat (2n = 2x = 16) is an outcrossing pseudocereal whose seeds contain abundant nutrients and potential antioxidants. As these beneficial compounds are damaged by preharvest sprouting (PHS) and PHS is likely to increase with global warming, it is important to find efficient ways to develop new PHS-tolerant lines. However, gene...
Li, Dongdong Chen, Zhe Wang, Meng Leiser, Willmar L. Weiß, Thea Mi Zhao, Zheng Cheng, Song Chen, Shaojiang Chen, Fanjun Yuan, Lixing
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Euphytica
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop worldwide, but in many regions is increasingly faced with the issue of phosphorus (P)-deficient soils. The aim of this study was to screen for low P-tolerance in maize and to dissect the underlying phenotypic response. To this end, we evaluated a panel of 380 diverse inbred lines in the field under low and n...
Lee, Young-Sup Won, KyeongHye Shin, Donghyun Oh, Jae-Don
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Animal Cells and Systems
Despite the various existing studies about nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs), genome-wide studies based on nsSNPs are rare. NsSNPs alter amino acid sequences, affect protein structure and function, and have deleterious effects. By predicting the deleterious effect of nsSNPs, we determined the total risk score per individual. Ad...
Scossa, Federico Alseekh, Saleh Fernie, Alisdair R
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Journal of plant physiology
Our agricultural systems are now in urgent need to secure food for a growing world population. To meet this challenge, we need a better characterization of plant genetic and phenotypic diversity. The combination of genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics enables a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying the complex architecture of many...
Tegbaru, Amare Menkir, Abebe Nasser Baco, Mohamed Idrisou, Latifou Sissoko, Dioukou Eyitayo, Ayinde O. Abate, Tsedeke Tahirou, Abdoulaye
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World Development Perspectives
Maize is the most important cereal in Sub Saharan Africa; however, yields are significantly lower than those possible with improvements in cultivars and management. Maize breeding programs need to produce material with improved resistance to increasing environmental stresses and incorporate the man and women farmer preferred traits that relate to y...
Fady, Bruno Aravanopoulos, Filippos Benavides, Raquel González-Martínez, Santiago Grivet, Delphine Lascoux, Martin Lindner, Marcus Rellstab, Christian Valladares, Fernando Vinceti, Barbara
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Tree Genetics & Genomes
There is growing concern that the implementation of political agreements on climate change and biodiversity will not be enough to protect forests in the short run and up to the end of the 21st century. As mitigation efforts are lagging behind self-imposed, reasonable targets, genetic diversity will have a large and significant part to play in the p...
Raj, Karthik Giger, Urs
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Canine Medicine and Genetics
BackgroundAn autosomal recessive, rapidly progressive degenerative neuropathy known as infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (NAD) was originally reported in Papillion puppies in 1995. In 2015, a causative missense variant in the PLA2G6 gene was identified in three affected puppies. Archived samples from Papillons clinically diagnosed with NAD prior to 2...
Wu, Yin-Qiao Zhao, Heng Li, Ying-Ju Khederzadeh, Saber Wei, Hong-Jiang Zhou, Zhong-Yin Zhang, Ya-Ping
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Zoological Research
Genomic imprinting often results in parent-of-origin specific differential expression of maternally and paternally inherited alleles and plays an essential role in mammalian development and growth. Mammalian genomic imprinting has primarily been studied in mice and humans, with only limited information available for pigs. To systematically characte...
