Chilota sheep is a typical animal population from Chiloé Archipelago in the south of Chile. First sheep were introduced in Chiloé in 1568 with Spanish conquerors. In 2010 Chilota sheep was recognized as the first original breed of Chile. Blood samples were obtained from 40 Chilota individuals from 40 flocks spread throughout Chiloé Archipelago. A maximum of one individual per flock were sampled...

We discovered variable modes of parental care in a breeding population of color-banded Veeries (Catharus fuscescens), a Nearctic-Neotropical migratory songbird, long thought to be socially monogamous, and performed a multi-locus DNA microsatellite analysis to estimate parentage and kinship in a sample of 37 adults and 21 offspring. We detected multiple mating in both sexes, and four modes of pa...

The choice of summary statistics is a crucial step in approximate Bayesian computation (ABC). Since statistics are often not sufficient, this choice involves a trade-off between loss of information and reduction of dimensionality. The latter may increase the efficiency of ABC. Here, we propose an approach for choosing summary statistics based on boosting, a technique from the machine-learning l...

The present study was undertaken to determine the predisposition of one transitional disease on other in various dairy animals Punjab. For this purpose, a total 250 respondents were randomly selected and interviewed personally from parts Punjab through structured interview schedule. Among diseases farms, anoestrus found be high (59.00%) followed by mastitis (52.00%). Dystokia highly significant...

a 6-year-old lactating holstein cow with a history of repeat breeding syndrome (failed to conceive afterthree artificial inseminations (ai) with fertile semen) was referred to the veterinary teaching hospital of theschool of veterinary medicine, shiraz university. according to the history, neither abnormal clinical signs,nor uterine discharge had been observed subsequent to ai. the cow had show...

A high incidence (about 70%) of alteration in endometrial epidermal growth factor (EGF) profile, i.e., loss of 2 peaks on days 2-4 and 13-14, has been linked to a reduced fertility in multiparous repeat breeder Holstein cows. However, the EGF profile in Holstein heifers and other breeds (types) of cattle has not been investigated. In study 1, EGF concentrations were determined using endometrial...

Background: Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease causing abortion, stillbirths and loss of milk production in livestock resulting huge economic losses. cattle has been under-reported under-diagnosed India due to non-specific symptoms, complex laboratory tests, fastidious nature bacterium lack proper diagnostic facilities. Scanty data pertaining epidemiological status leptospirosis avai...

objective: the lrr (leucine rich proteoglycans) is a molecular recognition motif found in proteins with some roles in cell adhesion, signal transduction, dna repair and rna processing. opticin is a member of this family. takanosu et al (2001) detected messenger rna expression of mouse opticin in the eye, heart, brain, testis, thyroid and epididymis by dot blot hybridization. in this study, exp...

analysis of the internal music in sahifeh sajjadiyyeh hasan khalaf * marziye abad ** seyed hosseyn seyedi *** balasem mohseni **** abstract considering the fact that music is not just specific to poetry but it exists in all literary works, whether poetry or prose, this study attempts to examine the inner function of the music in the sahifah sajadieh. external music is related to the prosodic rh...

In this study, a collection of 24,840 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) generated from five mango (Mangifera indica L.) cDNA libraries was mined for EST-based simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Over 1,000 ESTs with SSR motifs were detected from more than 24,000 EST sequences with diand tri-nucleotide repeat motifs the most abundant. Of these, 25 EST-SSRs in genes involved in plant development, ...