Keyan Zhao, Chih‐Wei Tung, Georgia C. Eizenga, Mark H. Wright et al.
Asian rice, Oryza sativa is a cultivated, inbreeding species that feeds over half of the world's population. Understanding the genetic basis of diverse physiological, developmental, and morphological traits provides the basis for improving yield, quality and sustainability of rice. Here we show the ...
Caterina Penone, Ana D. Davidson, Kevin T. Shoemaker, Moreno Di Marco et al.
Summary Despite efforts in data collection, missing values are commonplace in life‐history trait databases. Because these values typically are not missing randomly, the common practice of removing missing data not only reduces sample size, but also introduces bias that can lead to incorrect conclusi...
Joshua N. Cobb, Roselyne U. Juma, P. Biswas, Juan David Arbelaez et al.
KEY MESSAGE: The integration of new technologies into public plant breeding programs can make a powerful step change in agricultural productivity when aligned with principles of quantitative and Mendelian genetics. The breeder's equation is the foundational application of quantitative genetics to cr...
Mingshan Wang, Mukesh Thakur, Min‐Sheng Peng, Yu Jiang et al.
Despite the substantial role that chickens have played in human societies across the world, both the geographic and temporal origins of their domestication remain controversial. To address this issue, we analyzed 863 genomes from a worldwide sampling of chickens and representatives of all four speci...
Dong‐Dong Wu, Xiangdong Ding, Sheng Wang, Jan M. Wójcik et al.
Species of the Bos genus, including taurine cattle, zebu, gayal, gaur, banteng, yak, wisent and bison, have been domesticated at least four times and have been an important source of meat, milk and power for many human cultures. We sequence the genomes of gayal, gaur, banteng, wisent and bison, and ...
Benito A. González, R. Eduardo Palma, Beatriz Zapata, Juan Carlos Valdez Marín
ABSTRACT We review the status of the four currently recognized guanaco Lama guanicoe subspecies, and provide information about their taxonomy and distribution. The success of guanaco in inhabiting open habitats of South America is based mainly on the flexibility of their social behaviour and ecophys...
Walter Poduschka
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Yahui Gao, Mathieu Gautier, Xiangdong Ding, Hao Zhang et al.
Indigenous Chinese cattle combine taurine and indicine origins and occupy a broad range of different environments. By 50 K SNP genotyping we found a discontinuous distribution of taurine and indicine cattle ancestries with extremes of less than 10% indicine cattle in the north and more than 90% in t...
Andrew R. Whiteley, Anuradha Bhat, Emı́lia P. Martins, Richard L. Mayden et al.
Understanding a wider range of genotype-phenotype associations can be achieved through ecological and evolutionary studies of traditional laboratory models. Here, we conducted the first large-scale geographic analysis of genetic variation within and among wild zebrafish (Danio rerio) populations occ...
D. Sklan, M. Kaim, U. Moallem, Y. Folman
The effects were determined of dietary Ca soaps of fatty acids fed to cows to 120 DIM on milk yield, BW, peripheral concentrations of reproductive hormones, and fertility in primiparous and multiparous cows. Milk yield was increased in primiparous and multiparous cows fed Ca soaps, and milk fat and ...
Shahariar Chowdhury, Mohammad Shamsul Alam Bhuiyan, S. Faruk
Ninety pre-puberal (6-7 months) female and 15 pre-puberal male Black Bengal goats were collected on the basis of their phenotypic characteristics from different parts of Bangladesh. Goats were reared under semi-intensive management, in permanent house. The animals were vaccinated against Peste Des P...
Yi Zhang, Yongfang Lu, Marnoch Yindee, Kuanyi Li et al.
The swamp type of the Asian water buffalo is assumed to have been domesticated by about 4000 years BP, following the introduction of rice cultivation. Previous localizations of the domestication site were based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation within China, accounting only for the maternal lin...
Yoshiaki Kikkawa, Toyoyuki Takada, Sutopo Sutopo, Kazutaka Nomura et al.
Using nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome b and SRY genes, we examined the genetic status of two major groups of domestic cattle, the humpless taurine (Bos taurus) and humped zebu (B. indicus), using 10 cattle populations in Asia. Several sequence polymorphisms specific ...
Dong Liang, Pengju Zhao, Jingfang Si, Lingzhao Fang et al.
Visible pigmentation phenotypes can be used to explore the regulation of gene expression and the evolution of coat color patterns in animals. Here, we performed whole-genome and RNA sequencing and applied genome-wide association study, comparative population genomics and biological experiments to sh...
Paulino Pérez‐Rodríguez, José Crossa, Jessica Rutkoski, Jesse Poland et al.
Genomic prediction models have been commonly used in plant breeding but only in reduced datasets comprising a few hundred genotyped individuals. However, pedigree information for an entire breeding population is frequently available, as are historical data on the performance of a large number of sel...