The conformation, tissue composition, and chemical composition of three types of pigs, given food ad libitum and slaughtered over a nominal live weight range of 35 to 115 kg, was assessed in relation to data provided on the live animals by a visual image analysis (VIA) system. The pig types were named as ‘ 3 ⁄ 4 Landrace’, ‘ 1 ⁄ 2 Pietrain’, and ‘ 1 ⁄ 4 Meishan’ types, representing ‘attenuated’...

As breeders of large white turkeys have made genetic improvement in body size and conformation, problems in managing breeding males have become accentuated. The main problem is one of obtaining semen from large, broad toms. There are some reports in the literature in which studies have been conducted to determine the effect of reduction in body size of males on subsequent semen production. Voit...

A cross-sectional study was conducted in communal and small-scale Nguni cattle enterprises to determine preferential traits for improvement under low-input cattle breeding programs. Forty-one farmers participated in ranking six specific traits of breeding bulls and cows. Kruskal-Wallis test and ordinal logistic regression were used to determine mean ranks of traits and odds ratios of predictors...

the 1h and natural-abundance 13c-nmr spectra of 1-thiacyclooctan-3-one (1) have been measured from 25 to -100°c. coalescence is observed in the 1h-nmr spectra of (1) at about -80°c, and attributed to ring inversion in a boat-chair conformation, which is the predominant conformation of (1). the free energy of activation (dg¹) for this process is 9.2±0.2 kcal/mol. the 13c-nmr spectra of (1) is te...

Growth hormone (GH) is the most important hormone that controls somatic cell growth and syntheses of protein, fat, and carbohydrates. This study was conducted to identify gene polymorphism of GH-1 using PCR -single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) technique and its association with growth traits including condition factor (CF), body weight (BW) and total length (TL) in common carp (Cypr...

Six, 2 ns molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on the homodimeric enzyme citrate synthase. In three, both monomers were started from the open, unliganded X-ray conformation. In the remaining three, both monomers started from a closed, liganded X-ray conformation, with the ligands removed. Projecting the motion from the simulations onto the experimental domain motion revealed that ...

Conformation scores can account for more than 20% of cattle price variation at Australian livestock sales. However, there are limited available references which define genetic factors relating objective live developmental traits to carcass composition. Weaning and post-weaning weight, height, length, girth, muscle (ratio of stifle to hip width) and fat depth of 1202 progeny from mature Hereford...