The world demand for animal-based food products is anticipated to increase by 70% by
2050. Meeting this demand in a way that has a minimal impact on the environment will …

The 1000 Bull Genomes Project is a collection of whole-genome sequences from 2,703
individuals capturing a significant proportion of the world's cattle diversity. So far, 84 million …

Domesticated plants and animals played crucial roles as models for evolutionary change by
means of natural selection and for establishing the rules of inheritance, originally proposed …

The domestic dog serves as an excellent model to investigate the genetic basis of disease.
More than 400 heritable traits analogous to human diseases have been described in dogs …

In the last decades, the easy genetic manipulation, the external fertilization, the high
percentage of homology with human genes and the reduced husbandry costs compared to …

The Thoroughbred horse has played an important role in both sporting and economic
aspects of society since the establishment of the breed in the 1700s. The extensive pedigree …

The branch point sequence is a cis-acting intronic motif required for mRNA splicing. Despite
their functional importance, branch point sequences are not routinely annotated. Here we …

In this paper, we developed a highly sensitive approach to detect interchromosomal
rearrangements in cattle by searching for abnormal linkage disequilibrium patterns between …

Background Dairy cattle breeds are populations of limited effective size, subject to recurrent
outbreaks of recessive defects that are commonly studied using positional cloning. However …

The aim of this study was to estimate genotype by time-lagged heat stress (HS) variance
components as well as main and interaction SNP-marker effects for maternal HS during the …