The article presents the results of studying influence genealogical affiliation animals and origin bulls, as well age dairy cattle, on quantitative qualitative indicators lactation performance. It is given physiological justification for obtaining high productivity cattle. have shown that use bulls different genotypes insemination in productivity. So, according to 305-day first third yields ins...

The largest chromosome in the river buffalo karyotype, BBU1, is a submetacentric chromosome with reported homology between BBU1q and bovine chromosome 1 and between BBU1p and BTA27. We present the first radiation hybrid map of this chromosome containing 69 cattle derived markers including 48 coding genes, 17 microsatellites and four ESTs distributed in two linkage groups spanning a total length...

Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are critically endangered primates surviving in two isolated populations in protected areas within the Virunga Massif of Rwanda, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Mountain gorillas face intense ecologic pressures due to their proximity to humans. Human communities outside the national parks...

Background: Semen cryopreservation is the most important section of artificial insemination programs; it allows preservation of semen fertility for a long time. Materials and Methods: The aim of the present study was to detect the effect of in vitro supplementation of 4-hydroxy Tempo on fresh and frozen spermatozoa quality of buffalo bulls. Five healthy buffalo bulls (5 ejaculates from each bul...

A quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assay based on the cox III gene was evaluated for the simultaneous detection and discrimination of Theileria species in buffalo and cattle blood samples from South Africa and Mozambique using melting curve analysis. The results obtained were compared to those of the reverse line blot (RLB) hybridization assay for the simultaneous detection and differentiation...

Fatty liver is a metabolic disorder of dairy cows in early lactation, and approximately half of multi-parous dairy cows experience a moderate to severe fatty liver at calving. Since the occurrence of fatty liver in buffalo is not known, the aim of this study was to evaluate the hepatic content of triacylglycerols (TAG) and total lipids (TL), and the serum content of non-esterified fatty acids (...

Pi‰tûková V. , I . O‰Èádalová, J . Sedláková, P. Tomanová, I . BedáÀová: Emergency Slaughter of Cattle due to Immobility. Acta Vet Brno 2004, 73: 533-538. The objective of this work was to determine the most common causes and the trend in the development of emergency slaughters of cattle due to immobility. Emergency slaughters due to immobility of cows, heifers, bulls and calves were monitored ...

Previous studies suggested a close relationship between ruminant gut microbes and the mammary gland. In this study, shotgun metagenomic sequencing was used to reveal the differences in the intestinal microbiome potentially related to milk components in Murrah buffaloes and Chinese Holstein cattle. A PCoA based on the weighted Unifrac distances showed an apparent clustering pattern in the struct...

In view of the medical, veterinary and economic importance of hydatid disease in India, our study aimed to determine the prevalence and genotypes of Echinococcus present in domestic livestock in India. Out of 21,861 animals examined, cattle were found with the highest prevalence of hydatid cysts (5.10%) followed by buffaloes (3.81%), pigs (0.87%) and sheep (0.075%). Phylogenetic analysis of the...

The semen quality during the low (May-July) and the peak (September-November) breeding seasons in 18 Nili-Ravi buffalo bulls varying in age from 3 to 15 years was studied. Ejaculatory volume was higher (P < 0.05) in adult (3.03 ± 0.13 ml) and old (2.86 ± 0.13 ml) than young (2.51 ± 0.11 ml) bulls and during the low (3.44 ± 0.11 ml) than the peak (2.57 ± 0.90 ml) breeding season. Mass activity o...