Simple Summary As an important regulator factor, which was secreted by female oocytes,
the growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) plays an essential role during the growth and …

Litter size, or prolificacy, in goats is defined as the number of kids born per doe kidding.
Improving litter size through selection not only directly enhances producer profitability as …

Abstract Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) gene is an effective intra-ovarian regulator; it
plays a crucial role in early folliculogenesis in female mammals. The non synonymous …

Litter size (LS), an important economic trait in livestock, is so complicate that involves many
aspects of reproduction, the underlying mechanism of which particularly in goat has always …

Goats play an important role in the livestock sector in Greece. The national herd consists
mainly of two indigenous breeds, the Eghoria and Skopelos. Here, we report the population …

Goat farming in Pakistan depends on indigenous breeds that have adapted to specific agro‐
ecological conditions. Pakistan has a rich resource of goat breeds, and the genetic diversity …

The Booroola fecundity (Fec B) gene, as the first major fecundity gene identified in Booroola
sheep, has attracted careful attention. So far, previous research have uncovered the FecB …

The Tibetan cashmere goat is a prolific goat breed in China. In sheep breeds, natural
mutations have demonstrated that the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) super family …

Contents The main objective of this study was to investigate the polymorphism of GDF 9 and
BMPR 1B genes and their relationship with litter size in Markhoz goats. The polymorphism of …

Background: There is growing interest in the genetic improvement of fertility traits in female
goats. With high-throughput genoty**, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a …