Myostatin, also known as growth differentiation factor 8, a member of the transforming
growth factor‐beta super‐family, is a negative regulator of muscle development. Myostatin …

Genomic evaluation has been successfully implemented in the United States, Canada,
Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the …

Abstract The Animal QTLdb (https://www. animalgenome. org/QTLdb) and CorrDB
(https://www. animalgenome. org/CorrDB) are unique resources for livestock animal …

Successful development of biological databases requires accommodation of the burgeoning
amounts of data from high-throughput genomics pipelines. As the volume of curated data in …

Abstract Background The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is important both as a food source and
as a biomedical model given its similarity in size, anatomy, physiology, metabolism …

The major goal of sequencing humans and many other species is to understand the link
between genomic variation, phenotype and disease. There are numerous valuable and well …

Background Sheep and goats have undergone domestication and improvement to produce
similar phenotypes, which have been greatly impacted by structural variants (SVs). Here, we …

Before fertility traits were incorporated into selection, dairy cattle breeding primarily focused
on production traits, which resulted in an unfavorable decline in the reproductive …

Muscle development and lipid accumulation in muscle critically affect meat quality of
livestock. However, the genetic factors underlying myofiber-type specification and …

Livestock plays a central role in sustaining human livelihood in South Asia. There are
numerous and distinct livestock species in South Asian countries. Several of them have …