Alpha % Growth hormone gene Nigerian indigenous chicken SNPs KR nema Chicken growth (cGH) is a polypeptide secreted by the pituitary gland which responsible for several functions such as tissue and reproduction in chickens. This study was conducted to characterize six genotypes using exon 1 intron regions of cGH sequences. One hundred thirty-four (134) chickens comprising Normal feather (19), N...

this study was conducted at beresa watershed district of guraghe administrative zone, the southern regional state of ethiopia to evaluate the on-farm reproductive and egg production performances of local kei and its f1 crosses with fayoumi and rhode island red (rir) chicken breeds under farmers’ management. the local kei paternal line was mated with maternal lines of fayoumi and rir chickens to...

A case of polymelia with a rudimentary wing is described in an eight-week-old Nera black chicken (Gallus domesticus). It is a rare disorder with chromosomal aberrations, which are associated with congenital limb malformations. The condition was observed during routine physical examination of a flock of 2000 poultry birds in the month of February 2008 in Ibadan, Nigeria. After physical examinati...

INTRODUCTION The soft tissue paradigm is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the soft tissue profile to orthodontic treatment planning. The purpose of this study was to determine the lip dimensions of a Nigerian adult population; compare the male and female values and to compare the values obtained for Nigerians with those reported for other population. METHODOLOGY Lateral cephalome...

Introduction and insects which can act as reservoirs or vectors for a range of bacterial and helmintic diseases( Permin Poultry outnumbers all other forms of livestock in et.al.,1997). A study on the incidence of worms in Nigeria, and, not surprisingly, are found throughout the chicken farms in Nigeria found that the most common country, wherever there is human settlement. Chickens species were...

Commercial poultry farms (n° 523), located in all the six regions of Nigeria were sampled with a view to generate baseline information about the distribution of Salmonella serovars in this country. Five different matrices (litter, dust, faeces, feed and water) were collected from each visited farm. Salmonella was isolated from at least one of the five matrices in 228 farms, with a farm prevalen...

BACKGROUND Advances in breast cancer (BC) research have demonstrated differences between black and white women with regarding tumour behaviour, patient outcome and response to treatment which can be explained by underlying genetic changes. The tumour suppressor gene p53 has been speculated to be involved in tumour biology of triple negative and/or basal -like BC and more commonly observed in bl...