Energy is the most limiting nutritional component in diets for high-producing dairy cows.
Palmitic (C16: 0) and stearic (C18: 0) acids have unique and specific functions in lactating …

Human milk covers the infant's nutrient requirements during the first 6 months of life. The
composition of human milk progressively changes during lactation and it is influenced by …

The aim of this paper was to evaluate the effect of genetic polymorphism of kappa-casein on
milk production in Holstein cattle. Two hundred and ten Holstein cows were used in this …

Association analyses between candidate genes and bovine milk fatty acids can improve our
understanding of genetic variation in milk fatty acid profiles and reveal potential …

Background Fatty acid desaturase 1 (FADS1) and 2 (FADS2) genes code respectively for
the enzymes delta-5 and delta-6 desaturases which are rate limiting enzymes in the …

Background The power of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is often limited by the
sample size available for the analysis. Milk fatty acid (FA) traits are scarcely recorded due to …

The selection efficiency of complex quantitative economically important traits in dairy cattle
depends on the identification of candidate genes responsible for these traits, as well as the …

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a kind of non-coding RNA that have an important molecular
function in mammary gland development and lactation of mammals. In our previous study …

Milk fat is a main nutritional component of milk, and it has become one of the important traits
of dairy cow breeding. Recently, there is increasing evidence that microRNAs (miRNA) play …

Simple Summary In this study it has been highlighted the role of a leptin polymorphism on
goat milk yield and quality and of its interaction with the energy content of the diet. Energy …