Aim: The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of bacterial culture supplementation on ruminal fibrolytic bacterial population as well as on survivability of inoculated bacterial strain in lactating Murrah buffaloes kept on high fibre diet. Materials and Methods: Fibrolytic bacterial strains were isolated from rumen liquor of fistulated Murrah buffaloes and live bacterial culture w...

The Karoun River is major source of water for warm‌water fish culture industry in southwest of Iran. The aim of the present study was to investigate the distribution of mercury in tissues of marketable common carp and in bottom sediments of fish farms in Khouzestan province. This study was carried out on 45 fish farms that are located on the bank of the Karoun River in Khouzestan province, sout...

background: major histocompatibility complex (mhc) comprises a group of genes, which plays a central role in immune response. the exon 2 of bula-drb3 is part of the mhc class ii in buffalo that highly polymorphic, found to be associated with resistance/susceptibility to infections and also with production parameters. objectives: the purpose of the present study is to identify bula-drb3 polymorp...

A survey to determine the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis and certain other infectious diseases was conducted on 42 free-ranging African buffaloes, (Syncerus caffer) from May to June 1997 in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Using the gamma interferon test, exposure to M. bovis was detected in 21.6% of the buffaloes. One dead buffalo and an emaciated war...

Polymorphism within the promoter region of bovine thyroglobulin has been reported to be associated with milk and meat quality. In this study, we investigated the genetic variation within thyroglobulin promoter region of swamp and riverine buffaloes using PCR-SSCP technique and sequencing, and also analyzing association of polymorphism with the milk production traits. The study revealed four con...

The purpose of this study was to determine the G>C mutation on exon 9 (G21234C) Bovine Smoothened (SMO) gene polymorphism by using Cfr13I restriction enzyme with PCR-RFLP method in both Anatolian Black cattle and Water Buffaloes. According SMO gene, results showed that there were three genotypes such as GG, GC CC cattle, but only one genotype GG Allele frequencies estimated 0.35 0.65 for G C...

The study investigated the occurrence of trypanosomosis in water buffaloes using parasitological and molecular methods. Buffaloes of different ages and both sexes comprising Bulgarian Murrah and some crosses were used in the study. Two of the 145 samples (0.13%) were positive for Trypanosoma evansi in both, blood parasite examination and PCR. One female buffalo (1/54 samples; 1.86%) from a lact...

Water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) are quite well adapted to climatic conditions in the Amazon, and in this biome, they are noted for the considerable amount of meat and milk they produce and how hard they are able to work. Because of a lack of research dedicated to improving the rearing of buffaloes in the Amazon, the objective of this study was to genetically characterize the Murrah and Medite...

The study was carried out to study individual test day variability in yield and composition of Surti and Jafarabadi buffaloes milk at day 15 and 60 postpartum (pp). 10 healthy Surti and Jafarabadi buffaloes of each breed were selected at random from Livestock Research Station, Navsari and Cattle Breeding Farm, Junagadh, Gujarat, respectively. Buffaloes were further divided into four different g...