Criollo horse populations descend from horses brought from the Iberian Peninsula over the period of colonization (15th to 17th century). They are spread throughout the Americas and have potentially undergone genetic hybridization with other breeds in the recent past. In this study, 25 autosomal microsatellites were genotyped in 50 horse breeds representing Criollo populations from 12 American c...

The aim of the present study was to estimate genetic parameters of body measurements in TurkishArabian foals. Records of wither height, front cannon circumference, heart girth, and body length were usedfor body measurements at birth, 6 months of age, 1-year-old and 2-year-old. Heritability of bodymeasurements of Turkish Arabian foals was estimated by using records of foals sired by stallions wh...

This study aimed to determine the phylogenetic and bottleneck analyses of Turkish Thoroughbred Arabian horse populations. In study, genotyping was performed using a total 17 microsatellite markers in samples taken from 959 813 horses. The average effective allele number horses 3.338 alleles 7.412 Thorougbred Genetic distance genetic identity between breeds 0.411 0.663, respectively. Also each p...

To the Editor: In 2012, a novel coronavirus termed Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV) emerged on the Arabian Peninsula; the virus has been responsible for >800 human cases. Recently, evidence of MERS-CoV infection in dromedaries was obtained from the Canary Islands, the Arabian Peninsula, and Africa (1– 3). Viral sequences from dromedaries and from humans infected with MERS-...

To evaluate the protein quality and postgut N utilization of full-bloom timothy hay, oat-supplemented timothy-hay diets, and alfalfa hay harvested at different maturities, apparent whole tract N digestibility, urinary N excretion, and serum AA profiles were determined in light to moderately exercised Arabian horses. Six Arabian geldings (16.0 ± 0.3 yr; 467 ± 11 kg of BW) were randomly allocated...