Simple Summary Injurious behavior prevention is a critical issue in the poultry industry due
to increasing social stress, leading to negative effects on bird production and survivability …

Breeding improvements and quantitative trait genetics are essential to the advancement of
broiler production. The impact of artificial selection on genomic architecture and the genetic …

Information on the genetic architecture of the production traits of indigenous African chicken
is limited. We performed a genome-wide association study using imputed Affymetrix Axiom® …

Background Wenchang chickens are one of the most popular local chicken breeds in the
Chinese chicken industry. However, the low feed efficiency is the main shortcoming of this …

Simple Summary The search for genomic regions of putative selective signaling is
instrumental in obtaining information about selection history in various species and …

Background The genomes of worldwide poultry breeds divergently selected for performance
and other phenotypic traits may also be affected by, and formed due to, past and current …

Background As a major economic trait in poultry, egg production efficiency attracts
widespread interest in breeding and production. However, limited information is available …

Simple Summary Feet and leg problems are among the major reasons for dairy cows
leaving the herd, as well as having direct association with production and reproduction …

Gilthead seabream is one of the most important fish species for Mediterranean aquaculture.
More than 80% of the genetically improved fingerlings of this species originate from a single …

Divergently selected chicken breeds are of great interest not only from an economic point of
view, but also in terms of sustaining diversity of the global poultry gene pool. In this regard, it …