Simple Summary Skeletal muscle mass is an important economic trait, and muscle
development and growth is a crucial factor to supply enough meat for human consumption …

Functional annotation of genomes is a prerequisite for contemporary basic and applied
genomic research, yet farmed animal genomics is deficient in such annotation. To address …

Parent-of-origin effects occur when the phenotypic effect of an allele depends on whether it
is inherited from the mother or the father. Several phenomena can cause parent-of-origin …

Body composition and meat quality traits are important economic traits of chickens. The
development of high-throughput genoty** platforms and relevant statistical methods have …

Improvement in animal productivity has been achieved over the years through careful
breeding and selection programs. Today, variations in the genome are gaining increasing …

Circular RNA (circRNA) and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) are known to participate in
adipogenesis and myogenic differentiation, but their impact on porcine muscle traits is not …

Obesity and substantially increased risk of metabolic diseases have become a global
epidemic. microRNAs have attracted a great deal of attention as a potential therapeutic …

Background DNA methylation is an epigenetic regulatory form that plays an important role in
regulating the gene expression and the tissues development.. However, DNA methylation …

In some fish species, high or low temperature can switch the sex determination mechanisms
and induce fish sex reversal when the gonads are undifferentiated. During this high or low …

Heat stress has a detrimental impact on cattle health, welfare and productivity by affecting
gene expression, metabolism and immune response, but little is known on the epigenetic …