Goat farming in Bangladesh is primarily centred on indigenous Black Bengal goat, a highly prolific breed. Searching for genetic markers associated with prolificacy this breed vital the country’s goat breeding industry. However, there are no reports polymorphisms fertility of Bangladeshi goats. This study investigated two major fecundity genes-bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth dif...

BMP15 and GDF9 are two oogenesis specific genes play a pivotal role in female fertility in mammals and potential for improvement of prolificacy in marker-assisted selection. The aim of present research was to investigate the variation and association between BMP15 and GDF9 polymorphism and litter size in Markhoz goats. The sequence variability of the different amplified fragments utilized for g...

Background: In this study we evaluate the effects of different doses of GDF9 with fixed dose of BMP15 on quality of in vitro maturated sheep oocytes. Materials and Methods: Good ovine Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were first transferred to Pre-IVM medium, and then to three IVM mediums supplemented with 10%v/v BMP15 and: 1) 175 ng/ml 2) 131 ng/ml or 3) 219 ng/ml GDF9. After maturation period, ...

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