Domestication and the subsequent selection of animals for either economic or morphological features can leave a variety of imprints on the genome of a population. Genomic regions subjected to high selective pressures often show reduced genetic diversity and frequent runs of homozygosity (ROH). Therefore, the objective of the present study was to use 42,182 autosomal SNPs to identify genomic reg...

Toxoplasma gondii infections in sheep and goats are important economically for public health many countries, including Romania. In this study, seroprevalence associated risk factors T. infection were determined 2500 500 from three counties the Banat region of Antibodies to found 1266 (50.64%) 375 (75%) goats, by using a commercial (IDEXX) ELISA. To evaluate epidemiological status infection, som...

this study estimated the magnitude of sexual dimorphism in a relict sheep from catalunya (ne spain), called fardasca,using geometric morphometric techniques. for these analyses, a total of 18 skull specimens (2 adult males and 16 females) were studied. our results suggest that the breed is not cranially dimorphic, so sex determination using landmarks described here as criteria is likely to yiel...

Previous studies indicated large, thin-walled, milk-filled rumens in lethal grey and white Karakul lambs. There was also a significant decrease in the number and size of the myenteric plexuses and the number of ganglion cells in these lambs. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the myenteric ganglia of the affected lambs are functional, by testing for the presence of vaso-active i...

The development of the non-woolled Dorper sheep breed is briefly reviewed. Despite the large number of Dorpers in South Africa, precious little research results have been published on its nutrition under harsh, arid grazing conditions, especially since this has been an objective for creating and developing the breed. Results from the limited number of trials with free ranging Dorpers on natural...

The present investigation has been undertaken to study the Hemoglobin and Transferrin polymorphisms in indigenous goat breed Salem Black of Tamil Nadu. A total of fifty blood samples from the adult male and female local breed of Salem Black goats were collected, among which 40 samples from Mecheri Sheep Research Station, Pottaneri, Salem and 10 samples from Institutional Livestock Farming Compl...

The growth, development and meat qualities characteristics of different genotypes lambs he growth features three ram-lambs, from their birth to six months age, were studied, in particular: purebred youngling the Ascanian Fine-Fleeced breed (AFF), a cross this gene pool with Texel (AFFxT) Merinolandschaf (AFFxM) breeds. Control over these experimental animals was carried out by weighing age peri...